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Seafood Department

The Common Market’s Seafood Department seeks to provide its shoppers with the highest quality, freshest, and most sustainable seafood available (wild-caught, farmed, or previously frozen) in keeping with the Common Market Seafood buying standards and The Common Market Seafood Sustainability Guidelines.

We have defined “sustainable seafood” as seafood that has been farmed, raised, or caught using methods and practices that:

  • can be continued indefinitely at a reasonable level;
  • maintain ecological health and abundance;
  • support the diversity, structure and function of the ecosystem as well as the quality of its habitat,
  • operate in a responsible manner, conforming with local, national and international laws and regulations.
Shop our full service seafood counter where we have a broad assortment of the freshest seafood available. The seafood counter is open during all business hours, and our staff is happy to answer any questions that you may have. We love to hear what you think of our products. The more our customers tell us about their own experiences preparing and eating the foods we carry, the better equipped we are to bring you the products you desire, backed by knowledge that you can rely on.

We provide a wide variety of fresh seafood that fits within The Common Market buying Guidelines and Standards.
Some of our featured seafood is:

  • sockeye salmon fillets
  • flounder fillets
  • tuna steaks
  • dry packed sea scallops
  • Carolina Catfish
  • cod
  • rockfish
  • mussels
  • oysters
  • lump and jumbo lump crab meat
  • fully cooked, frozen King crab, Snow crab, and Dungenese crab legs
We have also brought in wild halibut from Canada, and farmed tilapia from Ecuador.

The Common Market Seafood Department has, since its inception, been sorting through the many conflicting opinions and arguments that make up the sustainability debate. This is a highly contentious issue and one to which we have devoted a great deal of time and research. Throughout this period of departmental development, the one clear goal has been to establish the freshest, cleanest, most ethical, and most sustainable fresh fish counter possible.

We are absolutely committed to supporting our decisions with the best information we can find, and we intend to provide our customers with any such data at their request. The Common Market is constantly striving to make sound ethical and responsible decisions in what we choose to buy, and we know that our customers expect nothing less from us. Sustainable food is a multifaceted subject, and as we all continue this discussion, we can continue to define and refine exactly what it is that we want from our foods, our farmers, our fishermen, and our Co-op.