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Some of California s hardest-to-find seafood is arriving in the Bay Area. Here s how to get it
Georgia Freedman
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Andrew Bouton packs a lobster for a customer at the Sea Stephanie Fish pop-up in front of The Morris restaurant in San Francisco, Calif. on Saturday, Dec. 5, 2020.Paul Chinn / The Chronicle
This holiday season, Bay Area cooks can turn to a new kind of fishmonger for access to some of California’s best seafood, including abalone, spiny lobster and live sea urchin.
Stephanie Mutz and Harry Liquornik, sea urchin divers from Santa Barbara County, have provided seafood to Michelin-starred restaurants like N/naka in Los Angeles and Single Thread in Healdsburg for years. But when the pandemic shut down many of their customers, they turned their business, Sea Stephanie Fish, into a kind of pop-up shop.