Tuesday Night Speaker Sail: An Eat Local Model that Works

Join us this coming Tuesday night, August 23rd as we welcome aboard Andrea Tomlinson.  Andrea is the general manager of NH Community Seafood and will be speaking about ‘An Eat Local Model That Works.’

All our Speaker sails are a special discounted price of $18 and include a 2 hour sunset sail from 5:30-7:30 and an onboard talk and discussion.  You can buy tickets here.

Andrea Tomilson

My name is Andrea Tomlinson and I am the General Manager of NH Community Seafood, since March 2015.  I attended the University of Miami and then transferred to UNH where I graduated with a BS degree in Marine Science. I have been working in the field of Marine Science for over twenty years. My employment in NH has included the UNH Jackson Estuarine Lab, the UNH Coastal Marine Lab and Great Bay Aquaculture (GBA was the only commercial marine fish hatchery in the US), where I began my career in finfish aquaculture.

Drawn to philanthropy, I spent my post-graduate years doing community development work in Jamaica and later moved on as Nursery Manager on one of the largest and most successful tilapia/freshwater shrimp farms on the island. With this experience, I started my own seafood distribution business in Jamaica, delivering locally grown shrimp and fish to Jamaican-owned seafood restaurants and hotels. I soon realized that selling local seafood was not only a form of income, it was a passion!

In 2002, I moved back to New Hampshire and eventually back to aquaculture at  GBA, where I took on both an administrative managerial role and began working in sales. With the unfortunate closing of this facility in 2012, it was time to get creative with my second passion, organic farming. Having  grown organic chickens for the prestigious Farm to Table restaurant, Blue Moon Evolution in Exeter as a part time hobby, this became a full time endevour.

I am a true supporter of the local food movement and keeping NH grown food and fish in NH! I believe in these times of over industrialization and a lack of understanding about where our food originates,  we need to revisit the logical purchasing practices of our foreparents and buy our food from people we know, close to home!

I look forward to leading NHCS forward with continued success and hope to help alleviate the financial constraints put on our local fishermen by supporting their livelihood, a vital part of our NH culture.