Best Seafood Delivery Services for 2024 - CNET
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You don't have to live near the ocean to enjoy fresh seafood all the time. With these online seafood services, you can snag fresh filets and more, delivered straight to your door. The fish you'll get will either be fresh or flash-frozen at peak freshness, and your healthy dinner will be amplified by a touch of great seafood.
You can find both familiar and rare species of fish online.
If you're underwhelmed with the grocery store selection near you or want access to a greater variety of fish, oysters, lobster, crab and other seafood, this review may help. We've tested tons of the top seafood delivery services to find the best places to buy fish online. Your options include traditional online fish markets, along with seafood subscriptions. Some vendors send fish along with beef, pork and chicken to round out your protein haul.
Below you'll find the best places to buy healthy seafood online in 2024.
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About Fulton Fish Market: The name might sound familiar and that's because it's a physical fish market in New York City -- the second largest in the world only behind Tokyo's famously huge fish market. Fulton now offers online sales, in addition to selling wholesale off the docks to some of the largest purveyors and restaurant groups in the world. That means that through Fulton Fish Market you'll have access to one of the largest selections of fresh fish and seafood anywhere.
You can get almost any variety of fish from wild and farmed salmon to fresh swordfish, halibut, trout and a few harder-to-find species. Fulton also has a wide selection of shellfish including Atlantic and Pacific oysters, lobsters, scallops, crab meat, soft shell crabs, mussels and clams. That's not all: You can add tasty H. Forman & Son smoked salmon or tins of paddlefish caviar to your order.
How it works: At Fulton Fish Market you order fish by the piece, box or a curated bundle. Different species like fresh tuna, wild snapper and cod are available in different counts and you'll generally save more per pound if you order in bundles. You can also subscribe and Fulton will send a monthly, bimonthly or weekly curated box of fish starting at $75 per month for four six-ounce portions, but ordering a la carte is the best value.
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About SizzleFish: Sizzlefish might have a slightly smaller inventory than Fulton, but not by much. This online seafood vendor still stocks all the hits including wild salmon, sea bass, halibut, trout rockfish and tuna. Everything I tried in a heaping delivery tasted as fresh as any flash-frozen fish I've had. There's also a small selection of meats including filet mignons, ribeyes and ground beef.
One thing to note about SizzleFish is its higher prices, especially if you buy in small amounts. I couldn't find a single portion of salmon for less than $14, for instance. It's far more affordable if you order in bulk, like this 14-pack of farm-raised salmon filets for $110. Buying in bulk or signing up for a subscription is the best way to shop on SizzleFish and avoid busting your budget.
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About Rastelli's: Rastelli's began as a small butcher shop in 1976 serving its small New Jersey community. The family-owned butcher made a name selling some of the best meat possible, but more recently Rastelli's entered the seafood game, and its catch is as fresh as any on the list. You can score fish-fan favorites like wild tuna, Faroe Island salmon, shrimp, lobster and Icelandic cod. It may not have as big a selection as some others we reviewed but the beauty of Rastelli's -- beyond supporting a small business and not having to leave the house -- is ordering your seafood, beef, chicken and pork all in one place.
How it works: Seafood from Rastelli's can be ordered in semi-bulk (eight filets of cod, for example). You can shop a la carte for fish, shrimp and meats and prices are reasonable, including a pack of two wild-caught swordfish filets for $11. Shipping is free when you spend $200, so you can get the month's meat and fish supply in a single order and pay nothing for delivery.
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About LobsterAnywhere: As the name implies, this company specializes in tasty crustaceans and ships them live and direct from the cold waters of Maine, the lobster capital of the US. They sell only hard-shelled lobsters, including live Maine lobster which are more expensive than soft-shell but are also considered to be the best. You might be able to find cheaper lobsters in your supermarket, but LobsterAnywhere promises the absolute best in quality. Because of market fluctuation LobsterAnywhere's prices also fluctuate but are generally competitive.
How it works: There are other offerings available like shrimp and scallops, but Maine lobster is definitely the main draw here. You can order whole, live lobster (or lobsters) as well as lobster tails (frozen and in the shell) and lobster meat (shelled) by the pound. This is not a subscription, so you order exactly what you want and it ships in roughly two days.
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