March, 2025

After forty years we have reluctantly ceased to sell crab and lobster directly to the public from our boat at Fisherman’s Wharf and suggest you check out Finest at Sea across the street at 27 Erie St. They continue to supply our products along with Thrifty Foods.

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Exciting news (at least for us!). We now have a third new delivery vehicle. Our bigger Ford Transit and E250 vans will now only be used for freight work for fishermen in the crab and dive fisheries. For our smaller food service and grocery deliveries we have purchased this economical small Ford Connect van (pictured below) which gets our orders down to 7 degrees C in just a few minutes. We offer free delivery from Victoria to Campbell River and throughout the lower mainland.

Dungeness Crab

The crab price has risen lately as the US coastal crab fishery winds down. The three fishing areas around Vancouver Island experiencing a seasonal slowdown in production. We are offering competitive quotes so give us a call to discuss your needs. Catch rates around southern Vancouver Island have been very slow which is fairly typical for this time of year.

We are currently waiting to see what effect the new Chinese 25% tariff on Canadian seafood will do to our crab and lobster prices.

Atlantic Lobster

Lobster prices are up there at the moment. The winter season in LFAs 33/34 is seeing some poor catch rates, especially in LFA 34. As a subsequent result lobster are about as expensive as we’ve ever seen them. We’ve been suggesting to our customers that they concentrate on Dungeness crab which are a real bargain by comparison. Despite the challenges, we always have Atlantic lobster in stock for those who have to have a lobster feast.

Live Seafood Tank Maintenance

Did you know that maintaining live seafood tanks is big part of our business? We have four technicians covering Vancouver Island and the Greater Vancouver markets operating under the Crabitat Services banner. We have recently started offering tank maintenance services in the Kelowna, Vernon and Penticton areas. We offer our services to grocery retail and food service clients using Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) scheduled visits as well as emergency call out service. We are experts at establishing nitrogen cycles in new tanks or tanks that have suffered a crash. We are fully insured and have WCB coverage.