​These lovely local fish are the pride of San Francisco, and if you haven't yet, you'll find out why. Your dabs will come pan-ready.

The Mr. Morgan is the only Scottish Seiner on the west coast of North America. Typically, sand dabs are caught by drag netting. This is seriously unique and allows us to enjoy this fish with ethical ease. Check out my epic post about the Mr Morgan on the sand dab page, and the Fishwife's recipe for this glorious flatfish. These are the ONLY TRULY sustainable sand dabs available anywhere, except when I catch them myself by hook and line.

Sand dabs, by the way, are probably the most uniquely San Francisco fish in the Pacific Ocean. Other cities get local halibut, salmon, rockfish, tuna… but nowhere is the tiny sand dab treated with such reverence as here. Yet another reason that Bay Area people are so superior to everyone else ;) Sand dabs are exactly the kind of fish that we should be eating more of. Low on the food chain, able to reproduce quickly and extremely abundant. We've got some great recipes and fishery info on Sea Forager so, again, if you haven't checked that out… please give it all a read through.

ORIGIN: F/V Mr. Morgan out of Half Moon Bay

INFO PAGE: click for fishery info!

RECIPES: Sand dabs with bread crumb batter.

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