Catch of the day: Sign up for fresh seafood delivery to the Duke campus

posted August 28th, 2009

The newly formed Walking Fish Community-Supported Fishery at Duke is launching the 12-week program in September to bring employees bundles of fresh flounder, shrimp, clams and other seafood caught right off the Carolina coast. The initiative is a pilot project of Duke’s student chapter of the American Fisheries Society. Learn more.

Duke’s program works like the Mobile Farmers Market: participants buy shares of a weekly catch brought in by fishermen from the Pamlico Sound, Core Sound and Atlantic Ocean off the Carteret County coast, about three and a half hours from Durham.

The mix will include seven types of seafood, including regional species such as spot, black drum, mullet and triggerfish for $7.50 a pound.

Faculty and staff may sign up for the program this month but space is limited to 200 to 250 on a first-come, first-serve basis. The first truckload arrives Sept. 17. For more about signing up, go to www.walking-fish.org or e-mail info@walking-fish.org.