Submitted by Clamdiving t3_zcr12e in RhodeIsland
When you want seafood ( 🐌 🦞 littlenecks or fish) where do you get it? I don't mean like restaurants. I mean fresh stuff like I hit the docks in Galilee for crabs and lobsters. For shellfish I actually dig those myself.
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/e37880fdc24a4c7eb05b727ae228fe97
This is how you can find all the freshest seafood and individuals selling it even from their boat. Also check out https://seafood.ri.gov/ which is all about promoting local seafood, fishermen, and fishing businesses.
Happy shopping!
This is amazing thank you!
Dave’s market is the best if you can only get to a big grocery store.
But there are local fish mongers throughout RI. Any of them will have the same stuff.
I'd love to buy directly from the fishermen. How does that work? You just hang out at the dock until a boat shows up, and you ask them?
If this is a possibility, I would like to know this, too.
You can only buy certain things directly from fishermen, Shellfish not among them.
Why? Are there laws against it?
Yes it’s a food safety thing
I'm not sure how it would be safer if a distributor bought it from the boat, delivered to a retail store, and then I buy it there?
Taxes is the only legit reason. If I sell from my boat nobody sees it. If it goes through a wholesaler then taxes were paid
Exactly. I am approached on occasions while I'm unloading my boat. Some people become regulars while others are 1 time deals.
Andrade's in Bristol is the best fish market
This and the two Fearless Fish Markets in Providence
https://www.fearlessfishmarket.com is great!
If on providence fearless fish
Dave's market but I used to go to Captain's Catch in NP
There are three very legit seafood markets in my little East Bay town. Just find a local guy.
I never need to find a guy. I am the guy people find. I'm wondering how other people do it.
For shellfish I go to Twin Shellfish on Apponaug Cove in Warwick.
There are still a good number of locally owned and run fish markets around the state. That's my first choice rather than a chain grocery store but Dave's Marketplace is a good choice if you do not have access to a specialty market.
Go down to Newport to their state pier (Safe Harbor Newport Shipyard) and ask around. I get my fresh ass monk fish and lobsters from fishermen down there. Granted some of them are friends but they’re good people who will personally sell as well Or you can dip into Newport lobster shack as well. ALSO ANDRADE’S IN BRISTOL IS TOP TIER
blueplasticgirl t1_iyy0luo wrote
I've been going to Anthony's for years. Good quality stuff there.