Get hooked on sustainable fish with home delivery by Surfin' Seafood

Services that deliver healthy food to your home are thriving in Seattle, from Spud's organic produce to Smith Brothers Farms' milk and dairy products. The latest addition to the lineup is Surfin' Seafood, which delivers hand-cut, flash-frozen, vacuum-packed fish fillets and shellfish.

To order, customers visit www.surfinseafood.com and choose one of four packages: the Seafood Sampler ($85 for six to eight pieces), the Mini ($110 for eight to 10 pieces), the Family Pack ($160 for 10 to 12 pieces) or the Seafood Lover Package ($195 for 12 to 14 pieces).

Each order contains at least four varieties of seafood in three-quarter- to one-pound pieces. An order might include halibut from Sitka, Alaska, albacore tuna from the South Pacific or Dungeness crab meat from Washington. July shipments (order before June 24) will include Copper River salmon from southeast Alaska.

Surfin' Seafood delivers your first order along with a cooler and an ice pack ($20 refundable deposit required). Next time around, just leave the empty cooler on your porch and the company will replace it with a fresh one. Deliveries are made the second week of the month, and there's no obligation to order monthly.

Surfin' Seafood was started in 2004 by enterprising mothers Jennifer Hanseler and Tina Montgomery, who had two goals: earn a living while staying home with their young kids and integrate more seafood into their families' diets.

They connected with South Park seafood distributor TH Seafood, which supplies Surfin' with high-quality seafood considered sustainable by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch, including farmed species such as tilapia, catfish, trout and prawns that are not considered sustainable when caught in the wild.

Surfin's delivery area includes Seattle, most of the Eastside, the north end almost to Everett, the south end to Des Moines and Bainbridge Island. Visit the company's Web site for a delivery map and seafood recipes.

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