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 is open for our 2026 Season!
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CSF Memberships are distributed at the West Tisbury Farmer's Market (MV Agricultural Hall) throughout the summer, fall, and winter months, and include two, three, or five pickups (new this year!), depending upon the season selected. Pickups are spaced four weeks apart.
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This year we are offering a "Full Season" share, in addition to our standard options. A Full Season share includes 5 pickups, and allows our summer members to transition seamlessly into the fall season without having to sign up again.
All 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.)
The total servings in a share is dependent on how many pickup dates you select.
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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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Click below to learn more about our share options this season.
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And consider adding a copy of our new, award-winning, local seafood cookbook, The Sea Table, to your order!
Thank you for supporting our fishermen!