Article: Exposing Themselves.(Naked Fish)(Brief Article)(Company Profile)

Naked Fish strips itself of convention in order to get noticed.

When Woburn, Mass.-based Naked Fish wanted Boston-area diners to notice the then-new seafood chain in 1999, it asked its models to drop their drawers. Full-page ads in Boston magazines and newspapers featured local celebrities, such as boxer and actor Richie LaMontagne, in the buff, save for a, er, strategically placed fish.

The 10-unit chain's first television spot--scheduled to launch this month through November--is more conservative, at least visually. None of the actors bare it all in the 30-second bit; but with a spoof on sexual harassment, politically correct it ain't. The spot airs as ...

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