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Prime Seafood

"Sustainable Seafood for our Best Restaurants"

 

Prime Seafood is a 6 year old wholesale distributor providing top quality fish and shellfish, only from sustainable fisheries, to chefs of many of the most discriminating restaurants in the nation's capital area (see list below).  Generally, we buy directly from fishermen and fly it in overnight, assuring our customers that it's not only the best but also the freshest available anywhere.   We seek out and support only those fisheries that are sustainably managed and whose populations are healthy as well as seafood items we know to be free of dangerous contaminants.  We provide routine, year-round deliveries, generally of whole fish and shellfish, all harvested in peak condition from Alaska, Washington, British Columbia (Canada), Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Hawaii, the Philippines and Australia.  Our primary items are listed below and described in detail on subsequent pages (links near the bottom of this page).  

SPC member with a troll-caught king salmon from Southeast Alaska

OUR PRODUCTS  (click for a picture):

Halibut  (Mar 15 thru Nov 10)

King Salmon  (Apr thru Oct)

"Ivory" King Salmon  (Apr thru Sept)

Sockeye Salmon  (Jun thru Aug)

Coho Salmon  (Jul thru Oct)

Sablefish or Blackcod  (Mar 10 thru Nov 10)

Lingcod (Mar thru Nov)

Wreckfish  (mid-Apr thru Dec)

Striped Bass or "Rockfish" (mid-Nov thru Mar)

Red Grouper (mid-Apr thru Dec)

Yellowfin Tuna (year-round)

Swordfish  (year-round)

White Sturgeon (cultured year-round)

Black Seabass

White Seabass or Corvina

Spot Prawns (May thru July)

King Crab  (Nov thru mid-Jan)

Tanner Crab  (frozen, year-round)

King Crab Tails or "Medallions" (frozen, year-round)

Blue Crab  (Apr thru October)

White Shrimp (mid-April thru Dec)

Sea Scallops  (year-round)

Littleneck and Middleneck Clams

Rappahannock River Oysters  (Sept thru Apr)

West Coast Oysters  (year-round)

Manila Clams  (year-round)

 

OUR CUSTOMERS (click for their website)

Our products have been or are being served at more than 70 well known restaurants including many of the "Washingtonian's Top 100." 

Marcel's    Galileo     Cashion's    Bourbon Steak    Plume    2941    Blue Duck Tavern    Jockey Club    Nora    CityZen    Sou'Wester    Occidental    Willard    Hook    Ritz-Carlton - Fyve    Plume    Corduroy     Zaytinya     Proof     Poste     D'Acqua     Beck's     Johnny's Half Shell     TenPenh     Oval Room     Firefly     Urbana      Eola     Pesce      Kaz Sushi Bistro    Masa 14     Ris    Circle Bistro     Vermilion    Eventide    Tallula    Liberty Tavern    Lyon Hall    Dino     Evening Star Cafe     Assaggi   Assaggi Osteria    Redwood    Black's    BlackSalt   Cesco     Monte Carlo    Comus Inn    Saint-Ex    Mendocino

 L'Academie de Cuisine

and in the following private clubs: 

Chevy Chase Club    National Press Club   Members Club at Four Streams   Metropolitan Club      

OUR SOURCES

Many believe wild Pacific salmon, halibut and sablefish (blackcod) are among the most delicious fish in the world.  They are certainly the most nutritious and healthy.  Our primary supplier of king salmon, ivory king salmon, coho salmon, halibut, sablefish and lingcod is the Seafood Producers CooperativeWith 500 members, it is the largest and oldest fishermen's cooperative in North America, and it is recognized as the industry leader in establishing standards for quality.

For details on our primary products, see the links to additional pages below.

Salmon steaks and fillets courtesy Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute

(Salmon steaks and fillets - image courtesy Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute)

 

Additional Pages

King and Coho Salmon

Sockeye Salmon

Halibut

Sablefish (Blackcod)

Striped Bass or "Rockfish"

Wreckfish

Tuna, Swordfish and Sturgeon

Crabs, Shrimp, Scallops, Oysters and Clams

Our Company

Retail Sales

Our Suppliers

Mission Statement

Why Buy From Us? - 10 Good Reasons

Health Benefits of our Products

What Seafood Should Not be Served?

"Farm-Raised" Salmon  =  "Farmed and Dangerous"

 

Sailfish Jim

Prime Seafood's owner is a marine biologist with over 35 years of experience including 30 years as a federal government official involved in marine fisheries conservation and management, nationwide and internationally. 

If you are a serious fisherman, see his website devoted to Big Marine Fish.

 

Only from Sustainably Managed Fisheries

As conservationists, Prime Seafood will supply seafood only from sustainably managed, robust populations.  Unlike our competition, we do not trade in seafood being driven to extinction (such as "Chilean seabass," Atlantic halibut, orange roughy, marlin, bluefin tuna and mako sharks) or which contains unsafe levels of contaminants ("farm-raised" salmon and imported shrimp).  Did you know that just one meal a month of the cheap, "farm-raised" salmon that is sold in many Washington area supermarkets and restaurants (often misleadingly labeled "organic") poses an "unacceptably high risk" of causing cancer?  This is the primary conclusion of recent scientific studies.  (For the details, see our "Farmed and Dangerous" section.)  If you want to help make a difference, let chefs and market managers know why you want wild not "farm-raised" salmon.  If you want to know which common seafood items to select in a restaurant or at the market and which to avoid (because their populations are too low or because they are dangerous to eat), you can find out by visiting the Environmental Defense website and by using the Seafood Guide developed by the Blue Ocean Institute, both of whose assessments we endorse. 

 

Contact Us

Prime Seafood's logo - king salmon

Jim Chambers, Owner

Prime Seafood, LLC

9814 Kensington Parkway, Kensington, MD 20895  

(Office) 301-949-7778     (Fax) 301-949-3003     (Mobile) 202-330-9121

 

Updated 7/5/10