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CFSI Membership

Involvement in CFSI through membership, committee participation and other events provides our members with a multitude of opportunities to contribute their ideas to the scope of our association's missions and goals, to meet and foster business relationships with others in the seafood industry, and to collectively address the issues and the concerns common to all our businesses.

Have a problem?  CFSI can help.  Don't have a problem?  Good -- that's our ultimate goal and why being a member is the thing to do!

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Membership Categories:

  • Regular Member: 
    Individuals, companies, or corporations actively engaged in a business, trade, or profession in California (including subsidiaries or branches of companies headquartered outside California) whose interests are identified with, and whose activities are supportive of the consumer seafood supply industry.  Regular member category dues are based on the gross annual dollar volume of business:

        Regular Member Annual Dues*:
        Class A: Sales over $20million                               $2,625
        Class B: Sales of $10million to $19,999,999          $1,890
        Class C: Sales of $2million to $9,999,999              $1,575
        Class D: Sales less than $2million                         $1,050
     
  • Consolidated Member
    Companies with more than one entity within the state that operate under different names than the parent company or have significant independent operations in different locations within the state, or that own more than one company actively engaged in the consumer seafood supply business within the state, may elect a Consolidated membership that entitles all such locations/companies to be included in one membership.  A Consolidated membership is entitled to only one vote and only one seat may be held on the Board of Directors within the Consolidated membership.

        Consolidated Member Dues*:                             $3,675
     
  • Associate Member:
    Individuals, companies or corporations allied to, but not engaged in the consumer seafood supply industry in the state of California OR those companies outside of California.  (An individual, company, or corporation engaged in the consumer seafood supply industry whose principle place of business is outside the state of California but who maintains a branch office, or has a subsidiary company within the state of California is NOT eligible for associate membership).

        Associate Member Annual Dues*:                       $   630
     
  • Association Member:
    Trade associations, cooperatives, or any organized group of individuals involved in the commercial fishing industry as their principle business.

        Association Member Annual Dues:                         $   630
     
  • Friend of the Seafood Industry:
    Not a category of membership but for companies indirectly allied to the seafood industry who want to help support the efforts of CFSI by making a financial donation.

        Friend of the Seafood Industry                              $   150 & up

*Regular, consolidated and associate categories include a $50 voluntary contribution to CFSI's Political Action Committee, which may be deducted if you do not wish to contribute.