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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.


Location Options
  • Community Supported Fishery/Seafood Box
  • Wholesale
  • Retail Outlet
  • Roadside Stand
  • Dock Pick-up
  • Fishermen/Farmers Market
Purchasing Options
  • One-time Purchase
Delivery Options
  • In-Person Pick-Up
  • Local Delivery
  • Shipping Available
Ownership
  • Female
  • Fishing-Family
  • Veteran

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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 Prawn

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Years in Business

The value statements outlined below aim to create a higher level of accountability and trust, both internally within the network and externally to the public, in order to advance the movement of Community Supported Fisheries (CSF) and like-minded community-based seafood operations.

  • Community-Based Fisheries
  • Fair Access
  • Fair Price
  • Eating with the Ecosystem
  • Traceable and Simple Supply Chains
  • Catch and Handle with Honor
  • Community and Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management
  • Honoring the Ocean
  • Creativity and Collaboration

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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.