List of Community Supported Fisheries

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The Walking Fish initiative seeks to facilitate creative community-based fisheries projects that increase the viability of local communities by fostering ecological stewardship. In our first year of existence, we are working to develop North Carolina’s first community-supported fishery.

Penobscot East is working with the Stonington Lobster Co-op, and several local fishermen to start a Stonington-base Community Supported Fishery (CSF) program for shrimp. Penobscot East is also working with two fishermen from MDI who will operate a CSF from that island.

As part of Penobscot East's mission to secure a future for the fishing community of eastern Maine we are working to diversify the fishery, so that we have good alternatives to lobstering.

Maine's First Combination Community Supported Agriculture and Fisheries Program

Nieuwkerk FamilyKnoep Nieuwkerk has been fishing since 1996. His boat, the Hanna Jo, is a 38' Novi boat and fishes out of Government Warf on the Kennebunk River in Maine. It's a family operation: Knoep is on the water year round, his wife, Lucinda, delivers the catch from the dock each morning to Portland, and their children are often found on the boat.