Alaska Marine Council's Tanner crab CSF adds to swell in the buy local seafood movement (Fish Radio)
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Fish Radio with Laine Welch] September 10, 2014
Buying local is a trend that has really taken off, and from coast to coast people are making sure that it applies to fish. The idea started on the east coast and has been embraced by many Alaska communities from Sitka, to Juneau and Kodiak. The marketing concept is called community supported fisheries. The Alaska Marine Conservation Council began a CFS program with locally caught Kodiak Tanner crab and has added jig caught cod and rock fish to their list.
Kelly Harell is the director for AMCC-
“We started to try and form a marketing structure for jig fishermen that creates quality standards and the mechanism to process jig caught cod and rock fish and brand it so that it isn’t a low impact community-based fishery and get it out on the streets and people eating it.”
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