Seafood That Matters is the next chapter in Barton Seaver’s decades-long journey to reimagine our relationship with the ocean, starting with what’s on our plates.
This isn’t just about sustainability. It’s about possibility. Seafood That Matters is a call to action, and a celebration: of food that nourishes, systems that work and communities that thrive.
Barton believes seafood has the power to do more than just feed us. It can heal ecosystems, support brain and body health and drive real change—on our plates, in our policies, and throughout our food systems. Because when seafood truly matters, it helps everything else fall into place.
In celebration of the fish, shellfish, and plants we eat from our oceans, lakes, and rivers (in other words, Blue Food) and in collaboration with the PBS docuseries Hope in the Water, award-winning chef and TV host Andrew Zimmern and leading sustainable seafood expert and educator Barton Seaver present a seafood bible looking at Blue Food from water to plate: a tangible, delicious cookbook for how to best buy, prepare, and cook from our oceans and waterways sustainably.
