is a seafood company dedicated to bringing you only the very highest quality of ECOLOGICALLY SUSTAINABLE SEAFOOD harvested in the great Pacific Northwest. Our company specializes in all aspects of DUNGENESS CRAB, purchased directly from over 100 top Washington fishermen, as well as from docks in British Columbia, Alaska, and Oregon. We supply live, pot-caught Dungeness Crab 12 months of the year. Our unique open-system aquarium tanks, located on Elliott Bay in Seattle, holds live crab, which are stored without additives or synthetic feeds of any kind. Whether you are a wholesaler looking for a consistent, top-quality crab and shellfish supplier, or someone looking for that perfect crab feed or box of premium Pacific Northwest seafood, our company is here to serve you fully. Please check out our products to the left, for descriptions, pricing, shipping and ordering information!

is rooted in the dreams of a few friends who wanted to start a seafood company that would not just talk the talk, but WALK the WALK of providing people with healthy, sustainable seafood: good for fishermen, good for ecosystems, and just delicious for eating! The company was founded by M. Brendan Mahaffey in 1998, joined by wife Katharine Cissna in 1999, and helped along every step of the way by philanthropist and entrepreneur W. David Wilkinson, who has recently joined the company as a full partner. Our company has grown by specializing first in one product so that we could be the best at that, incorporating other products in only as we are able to do so with excellence, and with accountability to the environment, and to our suppliers and consumers. Our company would be nothing without the relationships we maintain with our fishermen and dock managers, and the teamwork that has developed in our multi-lingual crew here at Crab Fresh.

Dungeness Crab is one of the most sustainable seafood products available in the marketplace today. Crab-pots are more selective than most net or line fishing gear, and there is less mortality. This is a LIVE fishery, meaning that the crabs are alive when harvested, and all female, juvenile or undersize crabs can be returned to the sea ALIVE. Returning the females and juveniles alive means that Dungeness crab stocks have a much better chance of maintaining themselves than in other fisheries where such selectivity in harvesting is not yet achieved. The Dungeness fisheries in all regions of the Pacific Northwest require that all pots have a biodegradable line that disintegrates to allow the pots to open, greatly reducing "ghost fishing" of pots that become cut from their lines and sink to the sea bed. In addition, most Dungeness fisheries are regulated with limits on the total number of pots any boat may use, and all employ closures of fishing during molting/spawning seasons. In most Dungeness fisheries, limited entry permits ensure that there is a cap on the total number of boats going out to fish. While this is not true for Indian fishermen in Washington, because every member of a tribe has a legal right to harvest crab and other shellfish (Rafeedie Decision, 1995), the Indian crab fishermen catch less individually (on average) than the state fishermen. In fact, the Monterrey Bay Aquarium lists Dungeness Crab on its top group of ecological seafoods in its consumer chart, and Dungeness were also lauded during the Congressional hearings prior to the passage of the Sustainable Fisheries Act in 1996. Fishermen from Washington and Oregon have begun the process of obtaining certification of Dungeness Crab from the Marine Stewardship Council. In short, this is a product we feel very good about offering to consumers. It is the more so because at Crab Fresh, we maintain a vigilant eye on the Dungeness fisheries in which we actively participate, both as buyers, and as stakeholders in fishery management. The other products that we offer include pot caught Spot Prawns and cultured molluscan shellfish (clams, mussels and oysters), also listed on the Monterrey Bay Aquarium's top list, as well as some Washington gill-net harvested salmon, some Washington long-line salmon, and some live, pot-caught finfish, including ling cod and lemon sole from British Columbia, in season. In each case, we know who the harvesters are, where the product comes from, and what methods they use to bring us top quality, responsibly harvested products. More information about our ecological standards and our accountability to ensure these standards are met will be available at this site soon!