September 11, 2014 — Portsmouth has a new way of getting line-caught fresh fish.
New Hampshire Community Seafood is bringing the "CSF," or community-supported fishery, model to the Seacoast for its second year.
Organized in a similar fashion to the more familiar community-supported agriculture model, through which farms offer shares of fresh produce, the fishery program provides weekly pick ups for local residents of day-boat-fresh fish.
According to the New Hampshire Community Seafood, about 98 percent of the fish landed on the Seacoast is shipped to other states or overseas. The organization's aim is to reintroduce a fishing culture that is supported by the community.
"I first got involved in our local fishing industry while working with New Hampshire Sea Grant as a Brian Doyle Fellow as a senior marine biology student at the University of New Hampshire," says Sarah VanHorn, a founder and coordinator for Community Seafood. "I quickly began to realize that the majority of our local fishermans' catch was being shipped overseas, and (I) was determined to find a way to change that. A community-supported fishery seemed like a good place to start."
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