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“ We have been investing a lot more in local seafood, which has been exciting. We started leasing a dock in Moss Landing Harbor, which is halfway between Monterey and Santa Cruz. It’ s been exciting to see the company building more direct relationships with fishermen. Alongside leasing the dock in Monterey Bay, we have also invested in a new hoist, a new ice hopper to give commercial ice to the fishermen, a deicer for when we’ re offloading the fish, and a new processing line at our facility where we fillet all kinds of local fish by hand. We distribute to all kinds of businesses, everything from some of America’ s largest grocery store retailers and food service companies to small momand-pop restaurants to hotels, universities, tech companies, and even entertainment studios. We also have some of our own private brands as well, like Monterey Bay
Seafood which can be found at a major retailer throughout Northern California.
“ As a wholesaler, we have a huge product list; we work with over 100 different species. Each of those species tends to have several different product forms, depending on whether they’ re sold fresh or frozen, or as whole fish, fillets, steaks, or portions, for example. A lot of processing today is done abroad in the seafood world, so we’ re fortunate to be able to shorten our supply chains by receiving whole fish and filleting in-house. Salmon is our most popular item. We sell significant amounts of wild salmon from Alaska, but we also do a lot of farmed Atlantic salmon from Norway, Chile, and Canada. Dungeness crab is also a popular product. We’ re able to cook crab now at a new sister-location in Port Angeles, Washington, called Olympic Peninsula Seafood. It’ s been an exciting new
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