We’ve focused on our greatest passions while delivering the best value to our clients. This has been our guiding light in growing our business. Our founding member, Geoff has a long background in fisheries, i.e abalone, sea urchin and crab. He is the founding member of Living Pacific Seafood, LLC. He became aware of an opportunity in Newport, Oregon back in 2014, a crabbing business. We bought a motorhome to live in while the business got started. The first year Geoff unloaded Dungeness crab directly from the boats, provided the boats with bait and ice, and over all service. That first year was a small success, enough that we decided it was worth doing the next year.
We only had one boat and buyers consuming about 400 pounds of crab for that year. We’ve been successful in business before and capitalized upon our strongest suit of sales and relationship management. As of early 2018— we were able to scale to 25+ boats and marketing 1.5 million pounds of live crab! We are now four years into the business and looking to expand selling fresh Dungeness crab retail from our website and looking to open a retail store to sell to local customers and visitors.
We’re very concerned about quality and getting our customers only the best wild caught crab from the coast of the Pacific Northwest Coastline. Every crab is checked before distributing to our retailers, chefs, and restaurants who buy from us. Our reputation is everything and so we make sure our customers are taken care of.
Availability of live crab is best during the winter and spring months. Although not nearly as available, fresh-cooked crab is still available during the summer months thanks to the efforts of tenacious crabbers who fish right up to the season closure. Crabs tend to be weaker during the summer molting period and do not ship or travel well. Modern freezing techniques make sure frozen market crab is available all year round.
Market prices are lower during winter when the crabbing harvest is in full season. During winter you’ll be more likely to find Dungeness crab at more attractive prices which is a spectacular time to enjoy crab.
We created this website to begin retail sales of live crab and cooked crab that can be shipped to the individual customer. Another purpose of the site is for chefs/restaurants to place their orders. If you are wanting to resell our delicious crab and have a business permit, you are more than welcome to apply to become a wholesaler so as to receive the best prices for the volume you’re interested in purchasing.
We look forward to hearing from you and hope you’ll just love our Dungeness crab and other products available for your enjoyment!
Geoff and Beverly Molfino
Members
Living Pacific Seafood, LLC.
