Gabriela Bradt

Gabriela is a Fisheries Extension Specialist for New Hampshire Sea Grant and the University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension. Her programming is mainly focused around seafood marketing, market creation and consumer education and awareness about New Hampshire’s fisheries and local seafood accessibility. She has worked extensively with NH fishermen, chefs and other stakeholders in creating markets for aquaculture products including seaweed, oysters and mussels. She works closely with her Aquaculture Specialist in providing extension and scientific support to stakeholders and exploring possible avenues for expanding aquaculture and other fisheries possibilities in NH. She organizes and leads culinary and foraging workshops, fishing gear workshops and helps to guide and facilitate industry meetings. She also conducts research on invasive green crabs as a potential fishery and seafood product, soft-shell crab production and leads citizen science programs looking at green crab population and distribution in coastal NH as well as long term monitoring of microplastics and marine debris.

October 2026