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From boat to plate: Community-supported fisheries riding a swell |
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What began here two years ago as a booster for beleaguered fishermen, Cape Ann Fresh Catch is now a million-dollar baby, with more than 1,000 customers from Needham to Lincoln, Sharon, Lowell and Boston.
The cooperative, modeled on the trend of community-supported agriculture, is a program of the 42-year-old Gloucester Fishermen's Wives Association. The goal was not just to provide a bigger market for local fishermen, but spread awareness of the many types of local fish, felicitous from fin to fork. Read the complete story from The Gloucester Times.
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MELISSA WOOD, NATIONAL FISHERMEN: Meting out the meager
May 22, 2012 - Listening to the New England Council's Groundfish Advisory Panel talk about how that industry is going to pay for monitoring costs is kind of like trying to figure out how to pay your bills when you've just lost your job. Though monitoring is important keeping costs down is critical. As Panel Member Gary Libby pointed out, "If we had 100 percent monitoring we probably wouldn't have an industry."
