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About NH Community Seafood

We are your local New Hampshire fishermen. We have been fishing the waters of the Gulf of Maine, off our coast for the last 400 years. Our CSF and RSF are a pioneering effort intended to reconnect the local consumer base with New Hampshire commercial fisherman via a new marketplace for locally sourced seafood—a direct market from "Fish to Dish". In doing so, we provide local fishermen a fair market price, plus an incentive on every pound of seafood we buy. We provide the consumer, chefs and retail establishments with access to a wide variety of fresh locally caught seafood throughout the season, better insight into the supply chain with 100% transparency that brings seacoast seafood to their table, and direct input about the choice and diversity of fish they consume.


Location Options
  • Community Supported Fishery/Seafood Box
  • Fishermen/Farmers Market
  • Retail Outlet
  • Wholesale
Purchasing Options
  • One-time Purchase
  • Subscription
Delivery Options
  • In-Person Pick-Up
Ownership
  • Black
  • Cooperative
  • Female
  • Fishing-Family
  • LGBTQ+
  • Person/People of Color

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Seafood Offered

Acadian redfish, American lobster, Atlantic cod, Flounder, Haddock, Monkfish, Mussels, Oysters, Pollock, Rock crab, Scallops, Sole, Tuna, Whiting, Hake, American Plaice

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Locations

12

Number of Fishermen Sourced From

13

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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Since 1976, our local seafood has been going directly to global auction, leaving New Hampshire. And more recently, drastic cuts in quotas for vital groundfish species, increased financial constraints on our fishing community, and the continued high cost of fuel have threatened to end this proud tradition.

Alarmed about our future, fishing boats from Seabrook, Hampton, Rye Harbor and Portsmouth Harbor organized a harvest coop, or sector. In 2010, we were given an ownership right to collectively manage the federal groundfish fishery. Each year, we create a harvesting strategy and use it to meet the strict catch limit guidelines of our operations plan.

While fishing within the strict regulations of the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), we’re eager to work with New Hampshire consumers to keep our local fish in the state. We helped create a Community Supported Fishery (CSF) to provide members with the freshest possible fish, support New Hampshire fishermen, and promote this sustainable fishery management approach. The cultivation and nurturing of this direct relationship between local fishermen with local consumers is intended to increase demand for local seafood, to promote community awareness and engagement in marine resource issues, and to support our local and regional economies through the preservation of the livelihoods of local fishermen and the supporting of shore-side support infrastructure.