Community Supported Fisheries have been springing up all over the world. They are every bit as much an answer to industrial fishing as CSA is to agriculture. In North America there are already many thousands of members in an organised network, Local Catch.org. The network has much in common with Urgenci, including a Charter. To quote from their website: “LocalCatch.org is a community-of- practice made up of fisherman, organizers, researchers, and consumers from across North America that are committed to providing local, healthful, low-impact seafood via community supported fisheries and direct marketing arrangements in order to support healthy fisheries and the communities that depend on them”.

 Judith from Urgenci and Brett from Local Catch worked on how to build greater rapprochement between our networks, and also move towards an organised European CSF network; finally Brett put the great idea of a webinar on the table. We collectively decided that as Elizabeth Henderson has just helped launch the North American CSA Charter, and Urgenci Europe finalised our European CSA Declaration just a few months ago, that this would be a good subject to bring people more widely into this conversation.