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Abundant Seafood

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Abundant Seafood is a commercial fishing operation run by Mark Marhefka, who lives in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, and works from Shem Creek in the Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.[1] He supplies many of Charleston's fine dining establishments who focus on local food and local farming,[2] and is known for bringing relatively unpopular fish (what he called "trash fish" to Anthony Bourdain[3]) to attention.[4] His customers have to be flexible; he says, "distribution is based on customer loyalty".[5] Marhefka started Abundant Seafood in 2007 with the desire to make locally caught seafood available to Charleston, and in 2010 added a consumer-sponsored fishery, where local people can reserve up to ten pounds of seafood per month.[6]

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  1. ^ "Mark Marhefka". Southern Foodways Alliance. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
  2. ^ Portman, Jed (4 March 2016). "What's Next for Southern Food?". Garden and Gun. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
  3. ^ Gidick, Kinsey (16 November 2015). "Bourdain does the Lowcountry right, finally". Charleston City Paper. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
  4. ^ "Boston chefs hit the road". The Boston Globe. 26 May 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
  5. ^ Raskin, Hanna (20 April 2016). "Flexible chefs are fisherman's best friends". The Post and Courier. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
  6. ^ Muhlke, Christine (27 January 2010). "Catch Me If You Can". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 July 2016.