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Sales were hot as autumn approached for fresh and frozen shellfish at Pike Place Fish Market in Seattle, with golden king crab legs and claws going for a teaser rate of $55.99, with Dungeness and Bairdi all ready to ship.
“We are trying to get them to get a whole king salmon to go with it,” said fishmonger Stewart Wolfe, also the shipping manager at the world-famous market.
Holidays—from Father’s Day and July 4th to Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s—attract the biggest demand for these succulent shellfish, whose abundance is dwindling with climate change and other issues impacting the world’s oceans.
Overall, demand in the fall of 2023 was about the same as for the same months a year earlier, Wolfe said. Shellfish orders were averaging about five pounds.
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