With surf and turf as the key ingredients of the 2009 Working Waterfront Festival, you can expect to find enough seafood and produce — and entertainment related to growing, catching and cooking it — to keep your stomach satisfied throughout this weekend’s two-day festival.
To ensure that residents will continue to feast on local seafood and produce after the festival, area fishermen and farmers are invited to join a roundtable discussion about Community Supported Fisheries programs that are popping up around New England. The programs, which are modeled after Community Supported Agriculture, allow people to buy a weekly share of fish caught by local fishermen.
"With Community Supported Agriculture, shareholders pay in advance to farmers, and in this case, to fishermen, so they can have a weekly delivery of that week’s fresh catch," said Andrianna Natsoulas, campaigns coordinator for the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance, a Maine-based advocacy group for sustainable fishing.