Local Seafood Promotion

"There's plenty of fish in the sea, it's just not the fish you're used to eating".

Many fishermen's businesses are being crippled by COVID-19 because of the sudden lack of consumer demand. With restaurant closures and the switch to take out only, fishermen have taken an economic hit.

You can help support local fishermen by purchasing seafood directly from permited fishermen at the dock or from local fish markets and restaurants that are doing curbside pick up or local delivery. Watch this video from Division of Marine Fisheries to understand the importance of your seafood purchase and how direct sales to the public work.

CAPE COD FISHERMEN & SEAFOOD BUSINESSES OFFERING DELIVERY AND/OR PICK UP 
(list will be updated regularly, listed by region then alphabetically)

Chatham/Harwich

Chatham Harvesters Cooperative (forms to reserve, dockside pick up, squid, scallops)

Chatham Lobster (order via text 508 945-8046 or email, dockside pick up, lobsters)

Chatham Shellfish Company (online orders, ship or pick up at Oyster River)

Isabel & Lilee Scallops (order online, pick up location listed on website)  

Mac's Chatham Market/Chatham Fish & Lobster (local delivery Harwich to Provincetown or pick up) 

Midnight Our Scallops (text 508-737-6189, dockside pick up Harwich)

Sea Holly Lobsters (call 508-292-7555 to preorder, pick up Harwich) 

White Cap Scallops (text 508-241-2181 dockside pick up Chatham) 

Mid-Cape

Barnstable Seafarms (call 508-566-7686, Saturday deliveries of shellfish)

Big Rock Oysters (see facebook for menu, curbside pick up in Dennis or delivery within 10 miles)

Cape Fish & Lobster  (call 508-771-1122 to place order for pick up Hyannis)

Clam Chowder Kits (Pick Up in Dennis) - 508-451-3124

Cotuit Oyster Company (Pick Up, Raw Bar To Go)

Isabel & Lilee Scallops (order online, pick up location listed on website) 

Sullivan Seafood Black Sea Bass (Dockside pickup in West Dennis or shipped to your door)

Outer Cape

Billingsgate Shellfish (call or text 774-722-1440, local delivery Brewster to Provincetown)

Cape Tip Seafoods (call 508-487-0259, Provincetown pick up or local delivery)

Isabel & Lilee Scallops (order online, pick up location listed on website)  

Holbrook Oyster (call/message, local delivery on outer Cape)

Mac's Eastham Market (local delivery Harwich to Provincetown or pick up)

Mac's Provincetown Market (pick up at market or call for local delivery; online orders shipped)

Mac's Wellfleet Market (call for pick up)

Nauset Fish Market (call for curbside pick up Orleans)

Wellfleet Shellfishermen's Farmer's Market (online pre-order, pickup Saturdays)

Wellfleet Shellfish Company (online orders, ships anywhere)

Upper Cape

Falmouth Fish Market (call) 

Lobsters Live (online orders)

The Clam Man (call; ships or pick up at Falmouth market)

Victoria Grace Lobsters (call Jeff at 774-266-0887, pick up Town Neck Beach)

Salty Lou's Lobsters (text 617-710-6322, pick up in Sandwich)

 Off-Cod Seafood Businesses Offering Delivery and/or Pick Up

List of all Massachusetts Seafood Markets that are currently open for business

Island Creek Oyster (online orders, ships anywhere)

New England Fishmongers (local delivery, Boston to Portland)

Newburyport Fish (curbside pick up)

Red's Best(online orders)

Wooden Island Wild (online orders- Alaskan fish delivered in Eastern Mass.)

List from National Fishermen (seafood shipped direct from all over the country)

Cape-Wide

Cape Cod Local Seafood (Facebook group organizing direct sales for pick up at the boat- you have to join the group- lobster, cod, haddock, scup, squid, scallops, etc.)

List of all Massachusetts Seafood Markets that are currently open for business

Mass Grown Exchange directory of local seafood and farmed produce available for direct sales

You can also help the national fishing community by buying any American-caught seafood when you go to the grocery store or fish market! 

COOKING LOCAL SEAFOOD AT HOME 

Not sure how to cook seafood at home?

Visit our RECIPE page to watch short videos that feature local fishermen and their catch, along with a watch and learn cooking demonstration. 

Need more help? There are lots of online recipes and cooking courses. Milk Street Cooking School has a free fish course.  Eating with the Ecosystem is sharing recipes at Local Seafoodies.  Or check out the Walking Fish CSF Cookbook.

Be sure to share with your friends to encourage them to cook seafood at home!

PIER TO PLATE

In 2017 the Fishermen's Alliance launched Pier to Plate, a program that aimed to create consumer demand for skate and dogfish on Cape Cod. Local small-boat fishermen sustainably catch “under-loved” dogfish and skate in abundance right off our shores, but 99 percent of this plentiful, white fish is shipped overseas to restaurants in Europe and Asia.

From May through October of 2017, Pier to Plate  drove awareness and generated demand for locally caught dogfish and skate. The program provided 4,010 pounds of dogfish and 5,600 pounds of skate to over 40 participating food establishments, local events and samples for institutional sales. The program was significant enough to be featured in 68 media outlets – 11 national, 29 regional and 28 local.

Although the Pier to Plate program for dogfish and skate has ended, we have remained committed to working with fishermen members to create opportunities for direct sales at farmers markets and with local businesses to help them access local seafood of any kind. We’ve also worked with companies like Whole Foods to ensure that high quality, sustainable, locally caught species are available to consumers.

CAPE COD SEAFOOD DIRECTORY 

Check out the directory below for great restaurant choices and always be sure to ask if the fish on the menu was caught locally. If you’d like to see your favorite restaurant added to our directory, let us know!

✔ Local ✔ Sustainable ✔ Delicious