Fair Share CSF is Jessica Lattif and Jalal Elhayek, two seafood lovers, "Good Food" activists, and community-based social entrepreneurs who strive to support sustainable, local food producers in both our personal and professional lives.
Fair Share is a small business that offers sustainable, fresh, local fish and seafood at a price that is fair to both consumers and fishermen. We exist to serve those who (like ourselves) are committed to making choices that ensure a healthy local economy and thriving oceans. We accomplish this by sourcing, processing, and delivering sustainably harvested seafood, caught by local, artisan fishermen; seafood that is as fresh as can be, and traceable to the source.
We met in Boston as food-obsessed grad students studying agriculture, nutrition & water policy, and first worked together in building an inclusive, down-to-earth chapter of Slow Food at our university. There, we hosted events like skill shares, trivia nights and homemade beer brew-offs. We were lucky enough to enjoy the bounties of some of the first community-supported fisheries in the US, and became enamored of both the concept and practice.
When we moved out to the Bay Area after finishing graduate school, we were surprised not to find any comparable community-supported fishery programs out here. Our instincts told us the concept would work for adventurous Bay Area locavores, so we began researching and planning this project. After working in non-profit and contract jobs for a couple of years, we finally took the dive and have launched our own community-supported fishery, Fair Share CSF!
Though the journey has just begun, we are excited to join the community that is pioneering alternatives to industrial seafood. We hope you'll join us!