The club by the numbers

Since 2020, we have put this many boxes on this many doorsteps.

50,000+
boxes shipped to more than 8,500 members
Every figure on this page is all-time, not current
The haul

What that adds up to.

204different tins curatedChosen one at a time, across 68 monthly boxes.
12kinds of fish and shellfishPlus the pâtés, spreads and cod liver made from them.
68monthly boxesEvery one built from scratch around a different idea.
50,000+recipe cards mailedOne in every box, written for what is in it.

Stack every box we have sent and you clear eight Empire State Buildings.

More than 50,000 boxes, one on top of another, reach roughly 12,500 feet. Packed onto pallets they would fill a small warehouse. Every one of them was taped shut by a person.

12,500 ftour stack of boxes
1,454 ftone Empire State Building, eight times over
Our boxes Eight Empire State Buildings
What was in the tins

No two boxes have ever been the same.

Eighteen different kinds of tin have gone out across 68 months: saury, cockles, octopus, cod liver, sprat pâté, anchovies, mussels and plenty more. Half of them are things most people would never have put in their own basket. That is the whole point.

Where the club lives

All 50 states, plus DC, Puerto Rico and a handful of military addresses overseas.

More than 3,900 cities. More than 5,100 ZIP codes. And nine countries.

Most enthusiastic per member: Alaska 438 boxes to just 70 members — one of the highest boxes-per-member rates in the country. People who live where the fish comes from order the most of it.
The long haul

Some people move in.

Three things we are quietly proud of.

Who it’s for

Two in five boxes we ship are gifts.

More than 20,000 of them, carrying 4,748 written messages. We read them. They are, without exception, better than anything we could write ourselves.

The occasion
Who it went to
Members have wished each other “Merry Fishmas” 86 times, entirely unprompted. Nobody put them up to it. We just kept finding it in the messages.
The wordplay

And Fishmas was not the only one.

Nobody asked for jokes. We counted them anyway, across all 4,748 gift messages.

In their own words

Great. Fun. Delicious.

493 members have written us a review. These are the words they reach for most, and the parts of the box they talk about.

How they describe it
What they talk about

A box turns up. You learn something. You eat well.

Every month: three tins you would not have found on your own, a snack or condiment chosen to go with them, something to eat them with, and cards telling you who caught them, which cannery packed them, and what to make for dinner. Every number on this page started with one person deciding to try it.

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