Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Community Supported Fisheries


After years of success with community support agriculture (CSA a term I was woefully unawares of until this week when my friend Pam wrote me to tell me how excited her and her husband George where to have gotten a slot with their local CSA). Now that I have seen the light, I also see that a new idea is emerging, community supported fisheries.

By keeping fishing local, the fishermen get a better price per pound, giving local fisherman a way of being competitive with the bigger trawlers. Read the entire article in the Washington Post

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