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Written by Erika Fredrickson   
Saturday, 17 January 2009

Community supported agriculture (CSAs) is a common term these days—from smaller communities to urban farmers' markets. In the case of agriculture, you buy a share (some places allow you to work for your share) and over the course of the season, you get weekly harvests of vegetables. It's a great way, if you can afford it, to participate in supporting local agriculture without actually farming yourself.

Now, according to the Washington Post, community supported fisheries (CSFs) are the newest addition to sustainable eating. It's the same idea--people buy shares and get pounds of fish (10-12 pounds in some case) every week. But there are other exciting aspects to CSFS. Upfront cash from shares allows small fishermen to invest in the season ahead of time, instead of going out of business because they can't afford big initial investments. The share also creates a relationship. Shareholders aren't just investing in fish, they're investing in a fishery that they expect to have environmental, ethical and healthy practices. And they'll pay higher prices to the fishermen to make that happen.

Some fishermen in Maine say current environmental regulations inadvertently support large fishing operations, leaving the small ones high and dry. But with CSFs, small scale fisheries win. In addition, many of these small-scale fishermen are looking to their past to address environmental issues. Instead of jumping on the technological treadmill and buying up new equipment to catch fish in order to keep up with the big guys, they're scaling down their technology and using older, tried and true methods that don't cost a fin and a tail to either fishermen or the marine environment.

Source: Washington Post

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