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About Asociación Pesquera de Culebra

At the Fishing Association of Culebra, Puerto Rico, we self-govern our small-scale fishing towards sustainable and accessible seafood through a solidarity-based economy. We operate a fish market.


Location Options
  • Community Supported Fishery/Seafood Box
  • Dock Pick-up
  • Roadside Stand
  • Wholesale
Purchasing Options
  • One-time Purchase
Delivery Options
  • In-Person Pick-Up
  • Local Delivery
Food Access Options
  • SNAP/EBT Accepted
Ownership
  • Fishing-Family
  • Person/People of Color

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Seafood Offered

Grouper, Octopus, Oysters, Sardines, Snapper, Spiny lobster, Triggerfish, Tuna, Wahoo, Queen conch (Aliger gigas).

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Locations

32

Number of Fishermen Sourced From

4

Years in Business

Our “values in action” reflect how members of our network implement our core values in practice. Through the intentional work of LCN and applying the core values, these elements emerge. The values in action are not meant to be criteria or requirements for network members, but instead help describe how we will achieve our mission and vision and help anchor and guide our work.

  • Catch and Handle with Honor
  • Community-Based Fisheries
  • Eating with the Ecosystem
  • Equitable Seafood Systems
  • Fair Access
  • Fair Pricing
  • Holistic Fisheries Management
  • Honoring Our Ecosystems
  • Learning Through Exchange
  • Traceable and Simple Supply Chains

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We apply fair access and pricing for our community in serveral ways. We have raised the ex-vessel price from our member fishers to reflect their hard work and livelihoods. We also offer discounts from our seafood market to the elderly and to our residents, and accept food stamps as a way to reduce access barriers to fresh seafood.
We eat with our ecosystem, not importing seafood from other regions, and selling only what is caught in our local waters in the current season. We honor our ecosystem by following fishing regulations, but going beyond and establishing our own community catch rules, such as minimum size limits and maximum amount of individuals per day. We also promote the sales of underutilized species, such as lionfish and porgys.
We are piloting a volunteer-based treaceability in our seafood market, in which customers can know when their fish was caught, by whom and what species it is. Our website also shares the nutriotional content of each species, and has recommended local recipees.

We train our local staff to handle our catch with honor, following sanitary and best management practices to keep seafood alive (in the case of lobsters) and fresh. Our staff is composed of three women with roots to local fishing coming back generations. In our team, we have 2 local chefs, which make our community gatherning spaces where we can other free, quality food.

We hold educational programs to combat the greying of the fleet, following a mentor-protege system to learn traditional skills from our elders and innovate with our youth.