Sure I'd seen them, at bait-and-tackle shops, but at the Greenmarket? The fellow at the Seatuck stall explained that fresh-caught shiners ($3.99 per pound) — the name refers to many varieties of small, silvery fish — can be fried and eaten whole. They give "a whole new meaning to fishsticks," he added wistfully, and perhaps now hungry himself. In catching and enjoying shiners from local waters, he's not alone.
Seatuck Fish
Eastport, New York
(at the Union Square Greenmarket, Saturday only)
