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Local Fishermen Part of West Coast's First CSF

MORRO BAY - The Central Coast is home to the first ever CSF, or community supported fish program, on the West Coast.

You can subscribe to SLO Fresh Catch and receive about a pound of fish from local fisherman.

The weekly baskets are delivered to drop off points around San Luis Obispo County.

Margie Hurd started the service, in part, with grant money.

She says the CSF helps support local fishermen and gives people on the Central Coast access to fish they wouldn't find at the supermarket.

"You're not getting the same product," she says. "(At the grocery store) you're getting something that may have been frozen multiple times, frozen and thawed multiple times. You're not getting a fresh product, and you're also not supporting your local fishing communities."

"When you can get local fish, it's spectacular, you know," says Mark Tognazzini, fisherman. "I think we've become a society of eating seasonally, and I think when you get a chance to eat albacore in the summer and salmon in the spring and rockfish year round, I think it's a great opportunity, and it's premium. It's at its best and it hasn't traveled halfway around the world."

SLO Fresh Catch already has nearly 100 customers and gets fish from about a dozen local fishermen in Morro Bay and Port San Luis.

Click here to find out more about the service.