Ann was born and raised in Gloucester, MA. After several years of traveling around the country and world, she settled back there and has been helping run her family business. For almost 35 years, Ann has overseen the marketing and sales for the Neptune’s Harvest division of Ocean Crest Seafoods, which came about to fully utilize 100% of the fish, by turning the gurry (everything that’s left after you filet a fish) into an organic fertilizer. She has a wide knowledge of organic fertilizers, and the fishing industry. She also loves to paint, write, and see live music.
Bart is a marine ecologist with a background in local farming and fishing industries. Bart is currently a researcher at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute studying broad-scale shifts in fish populations in the Gulf of Maine and beyond. He has a PhD in ecology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Bart was born and raised in Gloucester, and while he’s tried to leave a few times he keeps being drawn home. He currently lives in Magnolia with his wife and two young daughters.
Brenden is the first and only person to get a shellfish aquaculture operation going on the North Shore. As owner of the Great Saltmarsh Shellfish Company, Brenden looks forward to bringing high quality oysters and other shellfish to the local market. His background as an IT solutions architect and disaster recovery specialist has made Brenden an agile thinker who knows how to locate opportunities where many see only obstacles, and apply real cures to emerging problems.
Danny is the Marine Extension Specialist for MIT Sea Grant, where he works to support aquaculture and use of coastal resources that are sustainable for communities, economies, and ecosystems throughout Massachusetts. With nearly 15 years of marine science education at the New England Aquarium, degrees in fisheries science and natural resource management, training in nonprofit management as well as climate change science and communication, and a deeply rooted respect for the essentiality of wise and local food production, Danny is excited to help steer Gloucester SaLT as we reinvigorate and keep vibrant Gloucester’s core culture, value, and future. He also loves badminton, softball, and wildlife photography.
Raised in Gloucester, Jay has been lobstering for over five decades. He realized his passion for civic participation and process as President of Northeastern University’s Students for a Democratic Society. Since then, he has continued to gain extensive experience lobbying and testifying before national, state, and local governments. He is a founding member of the Cape Ann Clamshell Alliance and has served as Chairman and Vice Chairman for Gloucester Council on aging from 1989 to present. Jay also served two-terms as a counselor at large for the City of Gloucester.
Joe is a 30 year veteran of the commercial fishing industry and a graduate of UGB. As owner/manager/instructor at Extreme Gloucester Fishing Commercial Fishing Training Center, LLC.. He offers the only industry-specific modularized training of its kind in the United States.
Tiffany
Tiffany was born and raised in Beverly, Massachusetts. She is a Montessori educator, currently teaching at a school in Magnolia. She was raised in a family that hunted, fished, and grew a large portion of their food. She has raised her two, now grown, sons with these same values and is passionate about teaching these important skills to younger generations and local community members. She has ties to the commercial fishing industry through Extreme Gloucester Fishing, which is a program developed to train the next generation of commercial fishermen. Tiffany’s eldest son is a lobsterman out of Beverly.
Tucker was born and raised on Cedar Rock Farm in West Gloucester. His working career has always involved hands-on outdoor labor, split between farming and different trades. In 2013, he graduated from the Stockbridge School of Agriculture at UMass Amherst with a degree in Fruit and Vegetable Crop Production. Over the course of the last ten years he has apprenticed on many farms around the country and world. Throughout his travels he has always been drawn back to Cape Ann, and in 2009, finally accepted that there is no other place that he would rather settle. In 2010, he started working alongside Noah Kellerman building and managing the Alprilla Farm CSA (a vegetable farm in Essex, MA). As a partner in the business for the 2011 and 2012 growing seasons, he grew grain, hay, flowers, herbs, and over 60 types of vegetables for market. Tucker is thrilled to be working with other disciplines to train up future farmers while working to build a more profitable, sustainable, engaging local food system.