Our Company

Wholesale (and Retail) Sales Prime Seafood LLC is a 6 year old wholesale distributor providing what we believe is the best seafood in the world to chefs of the most discriminating restaurants in the nation's capital area including downtown Washington, D.C. and surrounding areas.  We are the ONLY seafood distributor in the Washington area supplying ONLY sustainable seafood items, and we advocate for our chefs to adopt sustainable seafood programs for their restaurants.  The company was formed in January of 2004 by our principal, James R. Chambers, a fisheries biologist with over 35 years of national and international experience (for his background, click here).  Prime Seafood LLC is backed by $5 million in liability insurance.  We supply fresh fish and shellfish only from those populations that are robust and managed sustainably and which do not contain dangerous levels of contaminants (such as carcinogens found in "farm-raised" salmon).  Our chefs tell us that our seafood is the highest quality and freshest available in the Washington D.C. area.   We buy our products directly from fishermen, fly or truck them in overnight, deliver them in one of our two refrigerated trucks (which are empty at the end of the day) and repeat the process Tues through Friday year-round.  Consequently, our customers are delivered seafood which usually has been "out of the water" less than 24 hours.  (In the case of our locally-caught rockfish, many are still alive and kicking when we bring them to our chefs.)  However, we do not have a warehouse thus we cannot guarantee to have all our products available 100% of the time. OUR CUSTOMERS (click for their website) We serve chefs that care about the quality of their seafood.  Our products have been or are being served at more than 70 well known restaurants including many of the "Washingtonian's Top 100" such as:  Marcel's    Galileo     Cashion's    Bourbon Steak    Plume    2941    Blue Duck Tavern   Jockey Club   Nora    CityZen    Sou'Wester    Occidental    Willard    Hook    Ritz-Carlton - Fyve    Corduroy     Zaytinya     Proof     Poste     D'Acqua     Beck's     Johnny's Half Shell     TenPenh     Oval Room     Firefly     Urbana      Eola     Pesce      Kaz Sushi Bistro     Ris    Circle Bistro     Vermilion     Dino     Evening Star Cafe     Assaggi     Redwood    Black's     Cesco     Monte Carlo    Comus Inn    Jackie's    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       Retail Sales At the request of many of our neighbors in Kensington and friends in the area, we are now also offering some of our products as retail sales.  For more information, see our Retail Sales page.  If you want to receive notices of upcoming offerings each week, call to give us your email address.

ADDITIONAL PAGES

Mission Statement

Our Suppliers

Health Benefits of our Wild Products

Why Buy From Us? - 10 Good Reasons

King and Coho Salmon

Sockeye Salmon

Halibut

Sablefish (Blackcod)

Striped Bass or "Rockfish"

Wreckfish

Tuna, Swordfish and Sturgeon

Crabs, Lobster, Shrimp, Oysters and Clams

Retail Sales

What Seafood Should Not be Served?

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

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