Comments on: The Pescavore’s Dilemma

By: From sea to plate: Reconsidering Cape Ann Fresh Catch | Public Radio Kitchen

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 22:05:53 +0000

[...] Kitchen, the name “Cape Anne Fresh Catch” might sound familiar. The community supported fishery previously got a skeptical treatment from us when Edible Boston’s Roz Cummins questioned their commitment to sustainability – last year’s [...]

By: Jacqueilne Church

Jacqueilne Church — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:55:23 +0000

I still want the CSFs to aim for some goals and share them…get away from damaging methods and cod. Smaller scale, family-owned destruction is only a shade better than larger scale company-owned destruction. Plus, once the cod’s all gone what will the big guys come in for?

Just as I would not support a small family farm that was polluting simply because they’re not agribusiness, I would not say this is as simple as some would draw it out to be. Not you two, Roz & Clare, but I want to give a well-reasoned, full set of facts for folks to mull over. I just hear too many making it into a white hat black hat argument.

By: Roz Cummins

Roz Cummins — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:02:16 +0000

Thanks, Clare. That’s exactly why this issue isn’t an easy call.

By: Clare Leschin-Hoar

Clare Leschin-Hoar — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:26:32 +0000

Great story, Roz. I especially liked this graf, which pinpoints the heart of the issue:

“If CAFC doesn’t succeed and loses the necessary consumer support before they have met their goal of creating a system that promotes sustainable fishing, that will make it more likely that there will be fewer boats in a community-based fleet. This will leave industrial-scale fishing to take its place, much the same way that a loss of family farms allows
agribusiness to move in and take over. That’s not good for anyone—not for fishing families, consumers or fish.”