Community Supported Fishery
A Community Supported Fishery (CSF), is an alternative way to sell fresh, locally sourced seafood, by offering shares of fresh seafood for a pre-paid membership fee. CSFs reduce the environmental impacts of seafood production, distribution, and consumption, reducing the seafood carbon footprint as much as 100 times that of conventional distribution!
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When you buy a seafood share up front, you guarantee both an outlet and stable price for local catch. This not only supports our local fishermen, but it keeps our working waterfronts vibrant, and strengthens our local food system. The income from shares also supports our upfront costs, so we can better serve our fishermen and our mission.
Your CSF share will include an assortment of delicious, flash-frozen, locally caught fish. In addition to popular options like scallops, fluke fillets, black sea bass, or tuna, your bundle may include species like squid or monkfish. By consuming non-target species or underutilized fish, you are helping to relieve pressure on heavily fished stocks, and diversify our fishermen’s product base.
Our CSF seafood is flash-frozen and vacuum-sealed immediately upon arrival at our dock, capturing fish at its freshest point possible. Flash-freezing allows us to purchase as much as possible from fishermen during the season, without concern for supply and demand, as it can be saved and distributed when fresh seafood availability is low. This allows us to not only buy more, but to offer fishermen a more stable price for their hard-earned harvest. We are able to flash freeze fish thanks to a generous grant from the MV Bank, allowing the purchase of our new flash freezer!
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Photo credit: Brooke Bartletta
Community Supported Fishery (CSF) Memberships
Registration for our Winter CSF has closed.
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Thank you to everyone who joined this year!
Registration for our 2026 CSF will open in April.
Please check back then, or join our mailing list (below) to be notified by email of our opening date.
In the meantime, you can still purchase local seafood at the winter Farmers Market at the Agricultural Hall on Saturdays, November 22, December 6, and December 20th,
from 10AM – 1PM!
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Have a great winter, and thanks for supporting our local fishermen!
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To learn more about the details of our CSF membership program, please see below a description of our winter share. Summer and Fall shares are structured similarly.
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A Winter CSF Membership will occur on select dates in November and December and will include two pickups.
Shares are available in Large and Small sizes.
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Each pickup for a Large share includes 16 servings of locally caught seafood (enough for four people to eat once a week, for 4 weeks.)
Each pickup for a Small share includes 8 servings of locally caught seafood (enough for two people to eat once a week, for 4 weeks.)
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Each share includes two (2) pickups.
Seafood options change seasonally, depending upon our fishermen's catch. All seafood has been flash frozen immediately upon landing, ensuring that you are getting the freshest seafood possible!
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Pickups will be available for you at the West Tisbury Farmers Market (MV Agricultural Hall) from 10AM – 1PM on the Saturday(s) that you select. Reminders will be sent via email.
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Each share will include one reusable insulated tote which you will receive on your first distribution. Please remember to bring it back for your next pickup!
Thank you for supporting our fishermen!