New England · Launching summer 2026

From the boat.To your door.

Named fishermen. Flash-frozen at the dock.
No broker, no distributor, no mystery.

Signing our founding New England fishermen·First boxes ship summer 2026·Arrives frozen solid — or we reship or refund in full

A commercial fisherman working out of New England earns roughly what he did in 2004. The fish on your plate costs twice as much. Five people in between took everything in between.

Catchline cuts them out. Fish goes from the boat into a flash-frozen box and from there straight to you — no warehouse, no distributor, no broker taking twenty dollars of your twenty-two.

You'll know the fisherman's name, their boat, and the day it was caught. Not as a marketing claim. It's on the label.

0 dayshow old the fish in your grocery store is when you buy it

$0.80/lbwhat the fisherman gets. You pay $22. Five people split the difference.

~0%of what you pay goes to the fisherman through Catchline. Through a dealer, it's 15.

0%of US commercial fishermen sell any catch direct to consumers (NOAA). Most can't afford to.

Boat to your door.
Nothing in between.

You know the fisherman's name, their boat, and the day it came out of the water.

The fisherman lands

A working commercial fisherman in New England hauls in their catch. Within hours it's flash-frozen at the dock — not in a warehouse three states away, not after sitting on ice for a week.

New England waters

It goes straight to a box

Your name goes on it. So does theirs. The catch date. The boat name. The fish doesn't see a broker, a processor, or a distributor. That's the whole model.

Full traceability

At your door in days

Packed on dry ice, shipped ground. Flash-frozen fish caught days ago is fresher than anything that's been sitting in a supermarket case — no matter what the case says.

Ships nationwide

From the boat to your plate

⚓The fisherman

✕Broker

✕Processor

✕Distributor

✕Wholesaler

✕Retailer

🍽️You

We cut them all out.

Where your $22 actually goes

The fisherman	$1.80/lb
Broker, processor, distributor, retailer	$20.20
With Catchline — fisherman keeps	~90%

Source: NOAA Fisheries data, 2024. General finfish average.

There's a fisherman in Maine who wakes before dawn to pull your dinner from the ocean. He got $1.80 a pound for it.

Ex-vessel prices — what fishermen actually receive — have barely moved in fifteen years. Everything that moved went to the people between the boat and your plate.

Catchline takes 10% to cover operations. The fisherman keeps the rest. You pay a fair price for fish caught this week, not last month.

See the boxes →

One boat in Gloucester
went from 1,200 to 5,000.

Cape Ann Fresh Catchwent from 1,200 customers to 5,000 in five years selling boat-direct out of Gloucester, MA. One boat. No broker.Documented 2020

+0%year-over-year growth in direct-from-fisherman seafood shipping in Alaska — before anyone had heard of itAlaska Seafood Marketing Institute

0%of seafood buyers say they'd pay more for fish they can trace to the source — and most have never had the optionPeer-reviewed seafood traceability research

For fishermen

Are you a
fisherman?

We're building Catchline with commercial fishermen who are ready to cut out the middleman and sell direct. If you want to keep more of what you catch, we want to hear from you.

Get in touch →

Email us. We'll run the exact numbers for your species — no pitch, just math.

$0.00Per lb on scallops — what you keepvs. $3.50–$4 from a dealer

~0%Of what the customer pays goes to youvs. ~15% through traditional channels

4 thingsThat's all we ask from youName, boat, weekly catch, one photo

First boxes shipping summer 2026

Real seafood.
Real fishermen.

Waitlist members get first pick of the first catch — before anyone else.

From the boat.To your door.

Boat to your door.Nothing in between.