Community Supported Seafood is a direct marketing approach, linking consumers to the commercial fishing community. CSF's promote eating locally landed seafood, knowing local fishermen, and being confident in the origins of the food you are eating. CSF arrangements are based on an agreement between a fisherman, or a seafood vendor and a consumer. Arrangements are tailored to the fishermen's fishing practices and consumers seafood preferences. Consumers support their fishermen by ordering and paying for local, wild caught seafood and in turn benefit from obtaining top quality, fresh seafood from a fisherman they know.
Advantages of the concept are:
Building relationships in the community
Creating links between consumers and their seafood providers
Developing local markets for local fish
Encouraging social responsibility and responsible fishing practices

Fisherman Frank assists in forging links to make this concept work by introducing fishermen and seafood vendors to discerning consumers interested in the origin of their seafood.