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!
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!
Photo credit: Brooke Bartletta
Community Supported Fishery (CSF) Memberships
Registration is open for our 2026 Winter Season!
CSF Winter Memberships will be distributed at the West Tisbury Farmer's Market (MV Agricultural Hall) during the winter markets (November 21st, December 5th & December 19th, from 10AM–1PM). Each membership includes two pickups, and is available in a Large or Small size.
Each pickup for a Large share includes 16 servings of locally caught seafood (designed to feed four people, once a week, for 4 weeks), providing 32 servings in total, per share.
Each pickup for a Small share includes 8 servings of locally caught seafood (designed to feed two people, once a week, for 4 weeks), providing 16 servings in total, per share.
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!
Click below to learn more about our share options this season.
And consider purchasing a copy of our new, award-winning, local seafood cookbook, The Sea Table! Cookbooks can be ordered separately, via this link, and can be picked up with your seafood share.
Thank you for supporting our fishermen!