Browsing the market, you'll find crab for only $2 per pound, and fish for between $6 and $10 per pound.ĭory Fleet Fish Market. But when the weekend fish market - home to just-caught rock crab, spider crab, sea urchin, and lobster, among other seafood - revs up, nearly 100 people can be found milling about, searching for the best catch. On weekdays, the Newport Beach dock is quiet. Open to the public every Saturday from 3 a.m. San Pedro Wholesale Fish Markets, located along the docks on Signal Place and 22nd Street. Don't forget a cooler for your haul, or your cash - your cards are no good here. You can find whole tuna and salmon for $3 per pound, or sardines and mackerel for a steal at $1 per pound. The San Pedro Fish Market along Signal Place starts between 2 and 3 a.m., selling fish to the public until about 7:30 a.m. Here, we've rounded up five seafood markets along the coast where you can see what you're getting first-hand:Įvery Saturday morning, the early bird gets the best catch. Studies show that when we buy local, we keep the availability of fresh, higher valued seafood up, we keep local fishermen in business, and we foster a relationship with the people who sell us our seafood - when you know who caught your fish, you can ask questions as you peruse the pickings. One of the best ways to keep our consumption environmentally friendly is to buy local - for seafood, that means buying the fresh catch at the nearest fish market. When it comes to our fish, we've grown quite conscious of keeping things sustainable. See our 4-minute California Matters segment on oysters and ocean acidification here.
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This story has been published in tandem with a segment for KCET's award-winning TV show "SoCal Connected." Watch it here now.