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Seafood distributors in Los Angeles

Los Angeles is a port city whose wholesale fish trade is not at the port. It moved inland to Vernon and downtown decades ago, and the fish that reaches most kitchens here arrives through LAX rather than off a boat. Sixteen suppliers below, each read off its own site.

  • 16 suppliers, verified in September 2026 against each company's own website.
  • Three districts, not one: seven downtown, three in Vernon, four around the harbour at Wilmington and San Pedro.
  • Two pairs here share an owner. Both are stated on the listing rather than left for you to find out.
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Cash and carry, so no delivery minimum
1939
Oldest still trading
Santa Monica Seafood

Every seafood distributor we verified in Los Angeles

Filter by what they carry, how the business is set up, who they sell to, how you can buy, and where they are. 15 of 16 publish a phone number and 16 publish a street address; where a company does not, the field is left out rather than filled in.

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Santa Monica Seafood

Regional distributorRancho DominguezEst. 1939

The largest seafood-only distributor in the Southwestern United States by its own account, running from a plant in Rancho Dominguez that the company calls the heart of its operations. It delivers six days a week across the region and lists over 600 species of fish and shellfish, all bought by full-time buyers. It processes fresh finfish and is licensed to deliver live lobster, crab, oysters, mussels and clams.

  • Largest seafood-only distributor in the Southwest, by its own account
  • Delivers six days a week across the region
  • Over 600 species, sourced by full-time buyers

Serves: Restaurants, Grocery, Hotels and casinos

Address
18531 S. Broadwick St., Rancho Dominguez, CA, 90220
Phone
(310) 886-7900
Delivers
Southern California, plus sites in Las Vegas, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado
Visit santamonicaseafood.com

Pacific American Fish Company

Regional distributorVernonEst. 1977

Founded in 1977 by Joseph Huh, an immigrant from South Korea, with his sons Peter and Paul, selling fish out of the back of a station wagon. The Vernon plant now carries over 5,000 items, runs 24 hours a day, and holds 108,000 square feet of freezer and refrigerated storage across 19 refrigerated docks. The company says it imports, stores, processes and distributes over a million pounds of seafood a day.

  • Started in 1977 selling fish from a station wagon
  • Over 5,000 items, warehouse open 24 hours
  • 108,000 sq ft of cold storage across 19 refrigerated docks

Named programmes

Pacific SurfOceankistPete's Seafood

Serves: Foodservice, Retail, Distributors

Address
5525 South Santa Fe Avenue, Vernon, CA, 90058
Phone
(323) 319-1515
Visit pafco.net

International Marine Products

Regional distributorWashington BoulevardEst. 1968

An importer founded in 1968 by the family behind Tokyo Kaikan, a Little Tokyo restaurant that opened in 1963 and could not get sushi-grade fish consistently from local suppliers, so it started importing from Japan itself. The Los Angeles site is head office and opens from 5am to 10am. The company also runs branches in San Francisco, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Houston and Denver.

  • Importing sushi-grade fish from Japan since 1968
  • Started because a Little Tokyo restaurant could not source it locally
  • Los Angeles head office, open 5am to 10am

Serves: Sushi restaurants, Restaurants, Markets

Address
3020 E Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90023
Phone
(213) 893-6123
Visit intmarine.com

J DeLuca Fish Company

Local specialistSan PedroEst. 1977

A San Pedro fish house started in 1977 by John DeLuca, grandson of a fisherman who came to America in 1915 and worked out of the same harbour. The daily catches of sardines, mackerel, tuna, anchovies and squid still come off the same dock the grandfather tied up at. The company sells fresh and frozen seafood to the trade and opens to the public one morning a week, from 1:30am to 7:30am each Saturday.

  • Fish still landed at the dock the founder's grandfather used
  • Open to the public Saturdays, 1:30am to 7:30am
  • Sardines, mackerel, tuna, anchovies and squid

Serves: Restaurants, Trade buyers, Public on Saturday mornings

Address
2192 Signal Place, San Pedro, CA, 90731
Phone
(310) 684-5180
Visit jdelucafishco.com

Golden State Seafood

Local specialistDowntown Los AngelesEst. 1988

A Stanford Avenue processor that has run in Los Angeles since 1988 and cuts to order at its own city facility, from whole and head-and-gutted fish through fillets to exact portions and steaks. It sells to retailers, distributors and foodservice teams rather than to the public. It is also the parent of Pacific Fresh Fish, listed separately here, and absorbed P&D Seafood in 2024.

  • Processing done at its own Los Angeles facility
  • Whole, head-and-gutted, fillet and exact-portion programmes
  • Parent of Pacific Fresh Fish, also listed on this page

Serves: Retailers, Distributors, Foodservice

Address
512 Stanford Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90013
Phone
(213) 688-7650
Visit goldenstateseafood.com

Pacific Fresh Fish Company

Local specialistDowntown Los AngelesEst. 1981

A downtown fish house that started as a small family business in 1981 and has been part of the Golden State Seafood group since 2018, which is worth knowing because Golden State is listed separately on this page. It carries access to over 250 seafood products, sells to other wholesalers as well as to restaurants, cafes, hotels and chains, and keeps a walk-in market on Sixth Street open Monday to Saturday mornings.

  • Walk-in market open Monday to Saturday, 6am to noon
  • Access to over 250 seafood products
  • Part of the Golden State Seafood group since 2018

Serves: Restaurants, Cafes, Hotels, Chains, Other wholesalers

Address
700 E 6th Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90021
Phone
(213) 623-6220
Visit pacificfreshfish.com

Luxe Seafood

Local specialistDowntown Los Angeles

A wholesale distributor and processor of premium seafood working out of the downtown produce district, open from 4:30am to 10am six days a week. The company flies fish in from around the world and says it keeps tight relationships with the fishing community for steady supply, aiming at a balance between creativity, cost and sustainability.

  • Open 4:30am to 10am, Monday to Saturday
  • Flies in seafood from around the world
  • Processing and distribution in one company

Serves: Chefs, Restaurants

Address
732 S. Alameda St, Los Angeles, CA, 90021
Phone
(213) 223-9000
Visit luxe-seafood.com

Yamamoto Fish Co

Local specialistDowntown Los AngelesEst. 2003

A family company founded in 2003 by Joji Yamamoto to supply Japanese restaurants in Los Angeles, and known in the trade for tuna. Every fish is hand cut each morning by the company's fillet men, and the site is explicit that no machines are used. Joji's son Toru has joined to carry the business into a second generation.

  • All fish hand cut every morning, no machines
  • Built around Japanese restaurant accounts
  • Second generation now in the business

Serves: Japanese restaurants, Foodservice

Address
556 Towne Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90013
Phone
(213) 243-0735
Visit yamamotofish.com

AAA International Seafood

Local specialistVernon

A Vernon wholesaler built around a sushi list: fresh bluefin tuna, bluefin saku and loin, kinmedai, shima aji, kanpachi, hirame and Santa Barbara uni. Delivery runs daily to greater Los Angeles and San Diego, and the published route list reaches Santa Barbara, Bakersfield, Palmdale, Riverside, Temecula and the Palm Springs desert. Orders go through a supplier portal.

  • Sushi-grade list built around bluefin
  • Daily delivery to greater Los Angeles and San Diego
  • Published routes reach Santa Barbara, Bakersfield and the desert

Serves: Sushi restaurants, Restaurants

Address
2535 E 28th Street, Vernon, CA, 90058
Phone
(323) 582-8003
Delivers
Los Angeles and Orange County, San Diego County, Santa Barbara, Bakersfield, Riverside, Temecula, Palmdale, Victorville and Palm Springs
Visit aaainternationalseafood.com

H & N Group

Regional distributorVernonEst. 1981

An independent family seafood importer and distributor founded in 1981 as H & N Fish Co. by Hua Ngo, who started with one van buying catches from independent fishermen in San Francisco. It opened a Los Angeles facility in 2002 and moved its corporate headquarters to Vernon in 2005. The range runs shrimp, swai and pangasius, tilapia, salmon, New Zealand greenshell mussels, catfish, cod and rockfish.

  • Founded in 1981 as H & N Fish Co.
  • Importer, wholesaler, distributor and processor in one company
  • Volume lines: shrimp, swai, tilapia, salmon and mussels

Serves: Foodservice, Retail

Address
5580 S. Alameda Street, Vernon, CA, 90058
Phone
(323) 586-9388
Visit hnfoods.com

DiCarlo Seafood Company

Local specialistWilmingtonEst. 1984

A live shellfish specialist started in 1984 by Paul DiCarlo, whose family had been in the San Pedro food trade since a bakery opened there in 1906, and whose maternal grandfather ran City Fish Market from 1915. The company works from a 6,400 square foot refrigerated facility on Pioneer Avenue, keeps a second sales office in San Diego, and imports directly from Canada, Mexico, New Zealand and South and Central America.

  • Live shellfish supplier to other wholesale distributors
  • 6,400 sq ft refrigerated facility in Wilmington
  • Direct importer from Canada, Mexico, New Zealand and Latin America

Serves: Chefs, Wholesale distributors

Address
842 N. Pioneer, Wilmington, CA, 90744
Phone
(310) 830-3460
Visit dicarloseafood.com

Nautilus Seafood

Local specialistWilmington

A California squid processing plant in Wilmington, minutes from the harbour, taking fish straight off its own fleet of fishing vessels. The core lines are calamari, California market squid, mackerel and sardines, and the company both exports and runs daily refrigerated distribution to restaurants, distributors, hotels and markets. It trades under J DeLuca Fish Company, which is listed separately here.

  • Processes catch landed by its own fishing fleet
  • California market squid, mackerel and sardines
  • Trades under J DeLuca Fish Company, also on this page

Serves: Restaurants, Distributors, Hotels, Markets

Address
505 East Harry Bridges Boulevard, Wilmington, CA, 90744
Phone
(310) 221-6500
Visit nautilussfd.com

Harvest of the Sea

Regional distributorDowntown Los AngelesEst. 1961

A processor that has traded in Los Angeles since 1961 as Ore-Cal Corporation and has renamed itself Harvest of the Sea. Its work is value-added and private-label rather than counter sales: it supplies major distributors, retail chains and foodservice operators, and runs an in-house culinary and research team on product development.

  • Trading in Los Angeles since 1961
  • Renamed from Ore-Cal Corporation
  • Value-added and private-label work for distributors and chains

Serves: Distributors, Retail chains, Foodservice

Address
1308 Factory Place, Unit 101-102, Los Angeles, CA, 90013
Phone
(213) 623-8493
Visit harvestsea.com

Prime Time Seafood

Regional distributorWestchester

A bluefin specialist that has spent 35 years supplying wholesale distributors rather than selling direct, and the exclusive sales and distribution partner for a bluefin programme. The warehouse sits next to LAX, which the company gives as the reason it can service California by truck and every major US and Canadian city by air.

  • Warehouse sits next to LAX for air freight
  • Sells to wholesale distributors, not to the public
  • Exclusive US partner for a bluefin tuna programme

Serves: Wholesale distributors

Address
11099 S. La Cienega Blvd., Suite #272, Los Angeles, CA, 90045
Phone
(213) 747-4212
Visit primetimeseafoodinc.com

Goldfish Seafood Market

Local specialistDowntown Los Angeles

A family-run downtown market that also sells wholesale, started by Victor Hernandez, who left Michoacan at sixteen and learned tuna classification and filleting before opening his own business. The counter runs from fish and oysters through shrimp, crab, lobster and octopus, and the company delivers locally free on orders over 95 dollars. It publishes no phone number.

  • Family run, wholesale as well as direct
  • Free local delivery on orders over 95 dollars
  • Relationships with fishermen for lines other markets do not carry

Serves: Chefs, Restaurants, Retail customers

Address
744 Kohler St, Los Angeles, CA, 90021
Visit goldfishseafoodmarket.com

Pacific Seafood, Los Angeles

National broadlineWilmington

The Los Angeles branch of a vertically integrated seafood company, sited in Wilmington by the harbour. It serves retail, foodservice and wholesale customers across southern California, and lists company-owned aquaculture, quota, fishing vessels, direct importing and its own branded lines. The branch keeps wet storage for shellfish and runs its own trucks for cold-chain traceability.

  • Company-owned aquaculture, quota and fishing vessels
  • Wet storage for live shellfish
  • Own truck fleet for cold-chain control

Serves: Retail, Foodservice, Wholesale

Address
605 N. Flint Avenue, Wilmington, CA, 90744
Phone
(310) 835-4343
Delivers
Southern California
Visit pacificseafood.com

A port city whose fish trade is not at the port

Our Chicago page argues that being a thousand miles from salt water matters less than people think, because most ocean fish is frozen at sea and moves by air. Los Angeles is the obvious place to test that, and the test is unusually clean, because you can just read where these companies chose to put their buildings.

Of the sixteen suppliers here, seven are in downtown Los Angeles, three are in Vernon, one is beside LAX, one is in Rancho Dominguez, and four are at the harbour in Wilmington and San Pedro. So the harbour holds a quarter of the trade in the second largest city in the United States, one with a working commercial port attached.

The gateway these companies name is the airport. Prime Time Seafood puts its warehouse next to LAX and says that is why it can service California by truck and every major US and Canadian city by air. Santa Monica Seafood, the largest of them, credits its proximity to LAX for a supply running seven days a week, and the line on its own site labelled local fish reads: from the docks in San Diego. Not from San Pedro, twenty miles away.

  • Downtown Los Angeles. Seven suppliers around Alameda, Towne, Stanford, Kohler and Factory Place, in and around the produce district. Several open at 4:30 or 5am and close by 10.
  • Vernon. Three of the largest, on Alameda and Santa Fe. Vernon is an independent industrial city, not part of Los Angeles, and the space is why they are there.
  • Wilmington and San Pedro. Four at the harbour. This is where what is left of the actual fishing trade sits, and the product reflects it.
  • Next to LAX. Prime Time Seafood, which says the airport is the whole point. On this page the airport does the work a dock would do in a smaller port city.

The kinds of supplier on this page

The split that matters here is not size, it is whether a company handles fish that arrives by air or fish that arrives by boat. Those are different businesses with different hours, different customers and, in two cases on this page, different centuries of history behind them.

Supplier typeCatalogueCuttingMinimumDeliveryBest for
Local specialist9 hereNarrow, protein onlyCuts to your specificationUsually negotiableScheduled, local routesMenus where the cut is the dish
Regional distributor6 hereBroader, may run past proteinSome, varies by houseSet per accountMulti-state or multi-marketGroups wanting fewer accounts
National broadline1 hereEverything, one invoicePortion programmes, fixed specsDrop-size drivenFixed schedule, wide coverageConsolidating staples and dry goods

The count column is computed from the listings above. The rest describes how each business model typically works, not a term any individual company has published. Minimums and delivery days are always set per account, so treat this as a shortlist tool, not a quote.

What is left at the harbour, and why the rest went inland

The fishing trade at the Los Angeles harbour did not fade quietly, and the record of it is specific. The Los Angeles Times reported on 3 June 2001 that at its height the harbour had 18 canneries and provided jobs for 17,000 people, processing the catches of 2,000 fishermen. By the time of that piece the fleet that once numbered 300 vessels had dwindled to fewer than two dozen mostly old sardine and squid boats, and the closure of the Heinz canning operation had left a single cannery on the harbour.

The second push was economic, and it was measured. The Los Angeles Downtown News reported on 7 April 2008 that industrial-zoned land downtown was selling for 60 to 100 dollars per square foot, against about 30 to 40 dollars in Commerce or Vernon, quoting a vice president at CB Richard Ellis. In the same piece, Pacific American Fish Company's sales manager described relocating in 2005 from a 30,000 square foot space at Sixth and Gladys to a 120,000 square foot facility in Vernon. That is the trade's inland migration, in one company's own words, from a dated source we are treating as dated.

What survives at the water is real, and it is specific: coastal pelagics. J DeLuca Fish Company still takes daily catches of sardines, mackerel, tuna, anchovies and squid off the same dock the founder's grandfather tied up at in 1915. Nautilus processes California market squid landed by its own fleet, minutes from the harbour. If you want the fish that actually comes out of this water, that is where it is. The menu fish flies.

The shape of Los Angeles's supplier base

Counted from the 16 listings above. Change the view, then narrow by supplier type to see how the mix shifts.

Seafood16
Shellfish8
Sushi grade4
Frozen3
Tuna3
Coastal pelagics2
Shrimp2
Japanese1
Live shellfish1
Salmon1
Squid1
Value added1

16 suppliers in view. Bars count suppliers carrying each product line, so they add up to more than 16: most suppliers carry several.

This trade runs before dawn, and it says so

Los Angeles seafood publishes its hours more consistently than any market we have researched, and those hours tell you what kind of business it is. Luxe Seafood trades 4:30am to 10am, six days a week. International Marine Products opens its Los Angeles counter 5am to 10am. Pacific Fresh Fish runs its Sixth Street market 6am to noon, Monday to Saturday. Golden State runs 6am to 6pm.

The most striking of them is J DeLuca, which opens to the public one morning a week: Saturdays, 1:30am to 7:30am. That is not a retail concession, it is a wholesale floor letting the public in during the hours it is already working, and it is the closest thing Los Angeles has to the public market hall that Chicago, Seattle and Cleveland all built and LA never did.

The practical point for a buyer: an account here is a morning relationship. If your kitchen orders in the afternoon you are ordering for the day after tomorrow. The four questions that decide whether an account works are the same as ever, minimum drop, delivery days, cut-off time and what happens on a short. Add a fifth in this city: what time do you actually answer the phone.

SupplierSeafoodShellfishSushi gradeFrozenTunaCoastal pelagicsShrimpDeliversWalk-in counterSame-day availableShips nationally
Santa Monica Seafood
Pacific American Fish Company
International Marine Products
J DeLuca Fish Company
Golden State Seafood
Pacific Fresh Fish Company
Luxe Seafood
Yamamoto Fish Co
AAA International Seafood
H & N Group
DiCarlo Seafood Company
Nautilus Seafood
Harvest of the Sea
Prime Time Seafood
Goldfish Seafood Market
Pacific Seafood, Los Angeles

A blank cell means the company does not list that line on its own site, not that it cannot get it. Most of these houses will source outside their published range for an account they want. Columns showing only one supplier are hidden to keep the grid readable.

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Match your order time to their trading hours

Several of these companies are closed by 10am. An afternoon order desk is not how most of this market works.

2

Use the harbour houses for what the harbour lands

Sardines, mackerel, squid and anchovies come off boats here. Almost everything else on a menu does not.

3

Ask whether the fish flew or floated

It is a fair question and the answer is usually specific. Air freight through LAX is the norm and it is not a compromise.

4

Saturday morning is a real option

J DeLuca opens to the public from 1:30am on Saturdays, and Pacific Fresh Fish runs a walk-in market six mornings a week.

Two pairs on this page share an owner

Golden State Seafood and Pacific Fresh Fish are both listed here, because both trade under their own names with their own addresses, phone numbers and customers. Pacific Fresh Fish has been part of the Golden State group since 2018, and Golden State also absorbed P&D Seafood in 2024. Nautilus Seafood and J DeLuca Fish Company are the second pair: Nautilus trades under J DeLuca, and they share an email domain.

We list them separately and say so on each card, which is the honest way round. The alternative, collapsing them into one entry, would hide the fact that you can buy from either, and quietly listing them as unrelated would be worse.

It matters for the same reason it mattered on our Chicago Asian food page. If you are keeping a second supplier so your pricing stays honest, two companies with one owner do not give you that. Here it is a smaller effect than a private equity roll-up, because these are local businesses that grew by buying their neighbours rather than platforms assembled by a fund. But the arithmetic on your price check is identical.

  • Golden State Seafood and Pacific Fresh Fish. Same group since 2018. Golden State cuts to order on Stanford Avenue; Pacific Fresh runs the walk-in market on Sixth Street.
  • J DeLuca and Nautilus Seafood. Nautilus trades under J DeLuca. One works the squid and pelagics landed by its own fleet, the other runs the San Pedro fish house and the Saturday counter.
  • Pacific Seafood is the national one. Vertically integrated with company-owned vessels, quota and aquaculture. Listed as a broadline so you can filter it out if you want an independent.

Unfiltered

What people say about buying seafood in Los Angeles

24 comments quoted verbatim from public threads, researched specifically for this city rather than reused from elsewhere on the site.

r/AskLosAngeles35 points
OP is lamenting that we don't have a local fresh seafood culture. All the maricos and sushi fish/shrimp is frozen and imported. We don't do local fresh seafood, but why should we? We have a giant international shipping port instead.
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r/LosAngeles24 points
International Marine Products and Superior were my sources for a long time. In regards to high quality fish, both domestic and imported, Los Angeles is a massive port city with nearly endless options. As everyone has pointed out, some fish not only need to be frozen in order to kill off parasites and/or bacteria, some are aged for flavor and texture. First come first serve at these suppliers downtown if you are sourcing in person and for the brick and mortar spots, the greater your usage/higher your profile then the better product gets reserved for you. We’ve overfished so much of the oceans at this point that a majority of species are becoming scarce and/or not available most of the seasons.
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r/LosAngeles4 points
I have worked for two excellent restaurants in the city, one of which had a large sushi program. One of the big providers/importers in town is Santa Monica Seafood. I toured their facility down near Compton earlier this year. It is state of the art and very impressive, they service a lot of the city and have a retail store as well if you are looking to buy. They are excellent for staple fish, but for more exotic stuff my previous employer imported fish directly from Hokkaido through channels the chef had from visiting often (and being Japanese helps). Some products are now available directly from. Fisheries as well if you order enough quantity. Ora King Salmon from New Zealand for example is only available from the company that raises them.
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r/LosAngeles3 points
> I do think Los Angeles has access to *fresher* fish when nicer restaurants are seeking fresh fish due to our international airport and large population. For example, I’ve never had better sushi than what I’ve had here in LA. I've even seen Maine lobster that was touted as being caught that morning and flown directly in, so yeah, I'm sure LAX plays a big role in the vast majority of fresh seafood in town. When you have a big enough market and the infrastructure to support it, what counts as "local" can really cover a lot of ground.
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r/FoodLosAngeles4 points
I’ve searched for a while for cheap fish. There aren’t many options. Costco - limited selection, but very high turnover and the best retail pricing you will find. Saturday morning fish market at San Pedro docs - Very cheap, although mid quality. No bluefin tuna, but yellowfin tuna in very large quantities for $5-7lb. I recommend whole yellowtail if they have it, it’s caught locally and great. Go at 2 am. True World and other sushi wholesalers downtown. Not usually friendly to retail, but possible to buy with a little work.
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r/SouthBayLA3 points
Have you tried the Saturday morning fish market in San Pedro? From 2am-8am a group of wholesalers open up to the public. They’re stock is always changing and may depend on what’s seasonal.
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Pulled from 65 Los Angeles threads across r/AskLosAngeles, r/LosAngeles, r/FoodLosAngeles, r/SFVfood and r/SouthBayLA. Its own corpus: no comment here appears on any other page of this site. Comments are unedited and link back to the original thread. They are individual experiences, not evidence about any distributor in general, and we deliberately do not aggregate them into a score.

Most Los Angeles seafood distributors still take orders the way they did 20 years ago

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Questions

Seafood distributors in Los Angeles: common questions

Where do Los Angeles restaurants actually buy seafood?

Mostly from downtown and Vernon rather than from the harbour. Of the sixteen suppliers we verified, seven are in downtown Los Angeles, three are in Vernon, four are at the harbour in Wilmington and San Pedro, one is in Rancho Dominguez and one is beside LAX. The downtown houses cluster around Alameda, Towne, Stanford and Kohler, and several of them are open only from around 4:30 or 5am until 10am.

Is seafood in Los Angeles fresher because it is a port city?

Less than you would expect, and the suppliers themselves say so. Prime Time Seafood sites its warehouse next to LAX specifically for air freight. Santa Monica Seafood credits proximity to LAX for a seven-day supply, and the line on its own site labelled local fish says it comes from the docks in San Diego. What genuinely lands at the Los Angeles harbour is coastal pelagics: sardines, mackerel, anchovies and squid.

What happened to the Los Angeles fishing industry?

It shrank, and then the wholesale trade moved inland. The Los Angeles Times reported in June 2001 that the harbour once had 18 canneries employing 17,000 people and a fleet of 300 vessels, and that by then fewer than two dozen boats remained with a single cannery. Land prices did the rest: the Los Angeles Downtown News reported in April 2008 that industrial land downtown was 60 to 100 dollars per square foot against 30 to 40 dollars in Vernon or Commerce, and Pacific American Fish Company had already moved to Vernon in 2005.

Can I buy wholesale seafood in Los Angeles without an account?

Yes, in a few places, and early. J DeLuca Fish Company in San Pedro opens to the public on Saturdays from 1:30am to 7:30am. Pacific Fresh Fish runs a walk-in market on Sixth Street from 6am to noon, Monday to Saturday. Goldfish Seafood Market downtown sells retail and wholesale from the same counter. Most of the rest are trade only, with terms set per account.

Which Los Angeles suppliers carry sushi-grade fish?

Several, and the market has real depth here. International Marine Products has imported from Japan since 1968, and it exists because the family behind the Little Tokyo restaurant Tokyo Kaikan could not get sushi-grade fish consistently from local suppliers. Yamamoto Fish hand cuts every fish each morning for Japanese restaurant accounts. AAA International Seafood in Vernon runs a list built around bluefin. Prime Time Seafood is a bluefin specialist selling to other wholesalers rather than to kitchens.

Do any Los Angeles seafood distributors share an owner?

Two pairs do. Pacific Fresh Fish has been part of the Golden State Seafood group since 2018, and Golden State absorbed P&D Seafood in 2024. Nautilus Seafood trades under J DeLuca Fish Company. All four are listed separately here because that is how they trade, and each listing says who it belongs to. It matters if you are keeping a second supplier so your pricing stays competitive.

Is this directory paid or independent?

No distributor paid to be listed and there are no affiliate links to any of them. The directory is published by VoiceOrder Solutions, an ordering software company, and that relationship is disclosed in the footer of every page and on our about page. Listings are ordered by supplier type, not by any commercial relationship.

How was this list of Los Angeles seafood distributors built?

We ran search passes for Los Angeles wholesale seafood suppliers, then captured each candidate company's own website and read the details off it, in September 2026. Everything listed is in Los Angeles County. Companies were excluded for being in another metro, which caught several with Los Angeles-sounding listings that are actually in New Jersey, San Francisco, San Diego and Fort Lauderdale, and for having no capturable website. About a dozen genuine downtown wholesalers publish no website at all and are not listed, because there was nothing to verify them against.

A note on what is missing

Two known gaps. Greco and Sons, a large Chicago Italian foodservice distributor now being acquired by Sysco, is not listed because its site blocked our capture and we would not write it up from third-party sources. Stock Yards is a US Foods brand rather than an independent distributor, so it appears under US Foods rather than as its own listing. If you run a Los Angeles seafood distribution business and we have missed you, that is an omission rather than a judgement.

Listings verified September 2026. Details change; always confirm terms on a call.