It’s time to fill your pantry with the freshest preserved foods, by joining the only Community-Supported-Agriculture box-program which brings them to you straight from the farm! Our Skipper Otto’s CSF Family is always looking around for wonderful and innovative opportunities to grow our community and bring to our friends the best products our land has … Continued

It’s time to meet your fishermen and kick-off the 2014 West Coast fishing season in style, with a premium salmon cook-out! The sustainable fishing family of Skipper Otto’s CSF invites all current and future members of Edmonton, Saskatoon, Regina and Calgary to come out and enjoy our traditional start-of-season free salmon barbeque. All the delicious … Continued

Dear friends from Edmonton, you are all invited tomorrow, May 13th, to join your fisherman Shaun Strobel and well known chefs from around the city for a five course premium wild seafood dinner in support of our sustainable fishing practices and of the Slow Food Edmonton Movement. Come out to the Lux Steakhouse & Bar, … Continued

Come out at the False Creek Fisherman’s Wharf this Saturday, May 10th, and meet with the Skipper Otto’s CSF team and your fishermen! Stewart and Duncan invite you up on their boats, from 11am to 2pm, to chat about their adventure bringing in the fresh prawns for this year’s Spot Prawn Festival and tell you … Continued

We are delighted to announce that our CSF will be supporting the 4th annual DIGNITYVANCOUVER Event by providing our delicious wild sustainable BC seafood for all participants to enjoy through the night! The event is put together by the Vancouver+Acumen volunteer-led chapter of the Acumen Fund, a non-profit that raises charitable donations to invest in businesses, … Continued

Big thanks to Serena Chu, David Fleming, John Lavery and Jeff Anderson for sharing their skills with our members! Both the salmon canning and salmon smoking workshops were a big success! The subsidized workshops (and our equipment library!) would not have been possible without the generous assistance of UBC’s Community Learning Initiative Community Grants Program. … Continued

Shaun’s back from a week out herring fishing. Every spring,  thousands of tonnes of Pacific herring travel in shore to spawn en masse. It is a powerful event, and provides food for lot’s of predators, including eagles, sea lions, and humans. Herring are considered a foundation species because of the important role they play in … Continued

Interesting press press release (below) about the herring fishery. Shaun and several of our other CSF fishermen are some of the 250 fishermen getting ready to go out and fish herring. They have already paid substantial amounts of money for the right to fish (quota, etc.) which will end up being about half of their … Continued