Center for Coastal Studies and Sal’s Place to Host the Local Bounty Banquet

The Center for Coastal Studies is pleased to announce a very special community celebration of its Fishing Gear Debris Recovery and Repurpose program. 

The 2022 Local Bounty Banquet, this year known as The Feast of the 14* Fishes and hosted by Sal’s Place, at 99 Commercial Street in Provincetown, will feature locally-sourced fare from the sea and land prepared on site by renowned chefs from the Outer Cape and Boston including Michael Ceraldi, Barry Dempsey, Mac Hay, Jake Hernarski, Collin Kolisko, Liam Luttrell-Rowland, Barbara Lynch, Josiah Mayo, Michela Murphy, Marc Orfaly and Raina Stefani. The banquet will be held Tuesday, December 6 from 6 – 9 pm.

Marine debris artwork by Gin Stone, Constance Old, John & Alicia Morgan, Cindy Pease Roe, emsaki, Sarah Thornington, Lizzy Day and others will be on display.

CCS Marine Debris and Plastics program director Laura Ludwig and CCS Marine Fisheries Research program director Owen Nichols will give a brief presentation about the Ghost Gear Recovery project and introduce the collaborating fishermen.

Join us for cocktails prepared by mixologist Matt Berry from 6 – 7:30 pm, mingle with friends, artists, fishermen and chefs and then enjoy a family-style meal in the dining rooms of Sal’s Place on the waterfront in the West End.

Very few tickets remain. Please email Laura Ludwig ([email protected]) to see if there are any tickets available.  $200 for CCS members, $250 for non-members.

The Local Bounty Banquet is sponsored by Sal’s Place and Seamen’s Bank, with support from Nauset Disposal. Special thanks to Michela Murphy for coordinating the Banquet and rallying some of new England’s finest chefs.

For more information about the project or this event, please contact Laura Ludwig at [email protected]

COLLABORATION IS KEY TO CLEANING UP OUR WATERS

Since 2012, the CCS Ghost Gear Recovery project has worked with commercial fishermen, harbormasters, public works departments, volunteers, Nauset Disposal, the MA Division of Marine Fisheries and the MA Office of Law Enforcement in the removal, disposal and recycling of lost, abandoned or otherwise discarded fishing gear (ALDFG) from the bottom of Cape Cod Bay. The data we gather assists in better understanding the issue of ALDFG. The gear (which includes nets, rope, traps, buoys, cable, monofilament, etc.) is returned to the owner, recycled, incinerated for electricity, or distributed to artists.

Over 85,000 pounds of ALDFG has been recovered to date.

The 2022 removal was funded by the NOAA Marine Debris Program.