Showing posts with label sustainability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sustainability. Show all posts

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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