Saraspe Seafoods was founded with a purpose: to nourish our local community with the highest quality product while creating sustainable foodways that ensure our oceans will remain abundant for generations to come. What started as one fisherman’s daughter’s desire to sell her father’s catch has grown into a community-wide movement to empower fishermen, distribute local catch to San Diego county and reimagine a generations’ old tradition of catching and selling fish.
Saraspe Family Seafoods
858-401-0445
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About Saraspe Family Seafoods
The Saraspe family has been servicing the San Diego area since the early 50s. The Saraspe family’s fleet was established in 1952, this was the year Lauro built his first skiff. Unlike the average college student, he fished the early mornings before class. At lunchtime, he would drive around selling that morning’s catch to the restaurants and wholesalers in the area. At the young age of 15, Lauro's son Andy was captaining his own 16-foot Woodward skiff. He spent most of his time harpooning swordfish (this was unheard of on a small skiff like his). Adapting over the years, Andy decided to ventured into new fisheries. He transitioned to Spot Prawn fishing in the early 1980s and has been trap fishing for prawn for over 35 years. The Spot Prawn fishery in California is limited to 16 permits making it an extremely regulated limited entry fishery. Andy holds 1 of the 16 Spot Prawn permits in all of California. As a family fleet of artisanal fishermen and fisherwomen, we desired to do more with our family's catch. We were and remain determined to change the way the local product was marketed. We shifted our family business from selling straight to distributors and instead built a brand that represented our family’s and friend's hard work and persistence and our respect for the grind.
Seafood Offered
Abalone, American lobster, Black cod, Dungeness crab, Grouper, Halibut, King crab, Lingcod, Mackerel, Mussels, Opah, Oysters, Pacific bonito, Prawns, Rock crab, Rockfish, Salmon, Sanddab, Scallops, Sea urchin, Sheepshead, Shrimp, Sole, Spiny lobster, Stone crab, Swordfish, Tuna, Whelks, White seabass, Live Spot Prawn2
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Years in Business
What are the Local Catch Values in Action?
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
How does Saraspe Family Seafoods implement these values?
