A game-changer in NC seafood is ready to unveil its giant new fish market in Raleigh
They started with coolers of fish in the back of a pickup truck. Now they’re opening a 10,000-square-foot seafood market.
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They started with coolers of fish in the back of a pickup truck. Now they’re opening a 10,000-square-foot seafood market.
SHARE A mixed bag of bluefish, black sea bass, squid, flounder, monkfish, and triggerfish — Locals Seafood sells what fishermen catch off the coast of North Carolina. Locals Seafood photo. I was driving to Rhode Island on a February night in 1984 with a thousand pounds of Maine shrimp sliding around in the back of my Chevy van — some of it having been picked in a friend’s kitchen. I’d blown a fuse and without a spare, I had to choose between the heater and music. I zipped up my Carhartts and plugged in Howlin’ Wolf. No chance the snow I had shoveled onto the totes was going to melt...