Fabian Seafood is a small family business
based in Galveston, Texas,
which started in 1975, selling our fresh shrimp throughout most of Texas and Oklahoma from
the back of pick-up trucks. Back then, we would buy the shrimp from the boats, ice them
down, and drive overnight several hundred miles or more inland to sell them the very next
day. Of course, lots of customers were skeptical, especially about buying from a truck in
a parking lot. But after they tried our fresh shrimp and told their friends, our business
grew. We started carrying other seafood products, but fresh shrimp is still our main
business.
Since 1977, we have transported our fresh shrimp and other fresh seafood
in refrigerated trucks and, later also by air cargo, and have sold throughout the Midwest
and Plains States direct to the consumer. Our selling areas include most of Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Iowa, and Oklahoma, and parts of Illinois, Indiana, North and South Dakota,
Nebraska, Kansas and Texas. We are fully licensed and inspected and take great care in
ensuring that the seafood we sell is the freshest available.
The
Shrimp Season generally lasts from April into November and
we are closed the rest of the year (if you try to contact us then, you may not get a reply
until Spring). We also bring up Fresh
Shucked Oysters in the Spring and again in the Fall. Fresh
Blue Crabmeat
is available starting in May.
Crawfish
are in season from April into
June.
Red Snapper
is available usually in the Spring
and again in the Fall, and
Flounder
start coming in once we get a few cold fronts in
October.
We do not post
our schedules online as hurricanes and the weather can disrupt any planned
sales.
We notify our customers a few days before each sale by
discount post cards and also by e-mail. To receive dates and locations of sales near you,
send us your address and we'll put you on the
mailing list.
In general, we sell in each city once every 3-4 weeks though in some places its every 6
weeks, depending on the route.
Prices change according to the catches and all sizes are not available
at all times. Much depends on the time of the season and on the weather conditions on the
Gulf coast.
Sorry, we don't ship any seafood
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