The 10 Best Seafood Delivery Services – ryan

It’s always a treat to enjoy fresh fish and seafood, but not everyone lives close to the coast with easy access to freshly caught seafood. Even if you have a reliable fishmonger, your seafood choices may be limited. If you’re a regular seafood eater—or if you want to incorporate more fish and seafood into your diet—a seafood delivery service may be worth considering. 

Online retailers take the guesswork out of the process by making it very easy to find a variety of fresh or flash-frozen seafood—think crab legs, tender sushi-grade tuna, fresh lobsters, and wild-caught salmon filets delivered right to your door. 

We researched several services and looked at their subscription offerings, considered their delivery areas, shipping fees, and sustainability practices. Choosing the best seafood delivery services for you and your family doesn’t have to be difficult with these favorite fish delivery services.

It’s hard to find a seafood delivery company with the depth of Wulf’s offerings. Its product variety, commitment to freshness, and transparent sourcing make this Boston-based business stand out. Since 1926, Wulf’s Fish has been sourcing premium seafood from artisanal fishers and farmers. From the dock to your door, Wulf’s oversees the entire process, with sustainable sourcing and a transparent supply chain to bring you fresh fish, shellfish, mollusks, caviar, roe, octopus, and squid—along with some surf and turf options, too. 

You can order à la carte, select items for your DIY monthly subscription, or choose among Wulf’s options, such as Fishmonger Favorites or Salmon Lover’s boxes. If cooking fish and seafood feels a little daunting, you’ll appreciate Wulf’s array of chef-created recipes for your catches, along with miscellaneous pantry items and their own branded spice rubs.

One thing we don’t love is that free shipping is only available for orders over $150 in zone 1, which runs from North Carolina all the way up to Maine, and as far west as Ohio. Additionally, subscriptions may not be possible for all items due to seasonality and availability. 

Starting Price: $150 | Products Arrive: Frozen | Free Shipping: Yes; for addresses in the northeast (from NC to ME) with orders of $150 or more | Delivery Areas: 50 states plus Puerto Rico

Sizzlefish, based in North Carolina, started in 2012 as a wholesale operation supplying North American seafood to restaurants and grocery chains. It’s now a large-scale direct-to-consumer retailer offering an affordable and comprehensive selection of fish, such as Alaskan salmon, cod, halibut, haddock, tuna, mahi-mahi, pollock, rainbow trout, and shellfish, including Gulf shrimp, scallops, lobster, clams, mussels, crab, and more. Most of its offerings are wild-caught; only the Atlantic salmon, rainbow trout and catfish are farmed species, but whatever you select, the company highlights its commitment to sustainability in its sourcing.

We also like the versatility and flexibility of Sizzlefish’s approach. Many fish are available in either four- or six-ounce portions. You can opt to order à la carte, bundled with other types of fish or seafood, or via subscription. 

Within subscriptions, you can opt for weekly, biweekly, or monthly deliveries, based on your needs. Subscription options range from the Wild Seafood Favorites, which is a selection of the freshest seasonally caught fish—it’ll be different every month. The Prime subscription is available with either 14 or 28 portions of the most popular selections, including salmon, haddock, cod, and catfish, along with shrimp, scallops, and crab cakes. The Prime Plus includes all of the aforementioned plus items such as mahi-mahi, halibut, ahi tuna, red snapper, and more.

Bonus: Sizzlefish might be a one-stop shop for some people, as the company also sells chicken and beef. One thing to keep in mind is that same-day shipping is not available every day of the week. 

Starting Price: $9.95 | Products Arrive: Frozen | Free Shipping: Yes, on orders over $100 and subscription boxes | Delivery Areas: 48 states 

Browne offers premium-quality shellfish and seafood sourced from all over the world. Think Maine mussels, Beluga caviar, Norway langoustines, Alaskan king crabs, and Nantucket scallops. These are the kinds of sea creatures you may have only encountered on restaurant menus, but with Browne you can have them drop-shipped to your door. Based in Portland, Maine, this family-run business also offers gourmet olive oils and vinegars, along with imported tinned fish, to finish out your order. Don’t sleep on the smoked salmon; Browne smokes its seafood in-house. 

We appreciate that Browne ships your seafood overnight, which ensures everything is as fresh as possible. Keep in mind that the minimum for free shipping is $300 for seafood or $150 for caviar—we wish that were lower. Browne doesn’t offer subscriptions, either.

Starting Price: $16 for smoked salmon | Products Arrive: Fresh and smoked | Free Shipping: Yes, with $150 minimum order of caviar or $300 minimum order of seafood | Delivery Areas: 50 states and Puerto Rico

Secret Island Salmon is sustainably farmed on the Chilean island Chiloé and offers a wide variety of salmon products made from two types of salmon: Coho and Atlantic. The fish is flash-frozen at peak freshness using liquid nitrogen technology. 

Secret Island offers salmon bacon, hamburger bundles, fillets, and even hot dogs, which you can order à la carte, or set up a biweekly or monthly delivery. We like that this company sells pre-portioned fillets—some of which you can order pre-seasoned with seasonings such as whiskey teriyaki or blackened—making meal prep a lot easier.  

If you’d prefer wild-caught fish, Secret Island Salmon isn’t the salmon for you. That said, the company follows sustainable and responsible farmed fish practices, which it outlines on its website. 

Starting Price: $23.99 for salmon hot dogs or burgers | Products Arrive: Frozen | Free Shipping: Yes, on orders above $145 | Delivery Areas: 50 states

Wild Alaskan Company partners with U.S. fisheries that follow strict sustainability practices, so its delicious wild-caught fish is ethically sourced and its origins are fully traceable. 

The company offers three different curated subscription boxes: a wild combination box, a wild salmon box, and a wild white fish box. Opt for either 12 six-ounce portions or 24 six-ounce portions. There’s also an option for a custom box of hand-picked fish. Salmon arrives portioned and flash-frozen to guarantee freshness. Members have access to exclusive savings and specials, and the flexible subscription option makes it easy to cancel, edit, or skip a delivery at any time. We especially like the 100-percent money-back guarantee—and shipping is always free. 

Starting Price: $145 | Products Arrive: Frozen | Free Shipping: Yes | Delivery Areas: 50 states

Feast on shucked or whole oysters from the East and West Coasts, from Wellfleet to Kumamoto. Other bivalves and shellfish are available, too, including clams and mussels. Scallops, shrimp, lobster—check, check check. All are available, which is not too surprising considering Fulton Fish Market is the country’s oldest and largest seafood and fish purveyor, dating to 1822. 

You can create a subscription or order à la carte. Fulton Fish Market’s “membership” has some free perks, including savings on every order, free shipping on orders over $125, and an anniversary gift every year as long as you order a minimum of $75 worth of products every 90 days. That price is their minimum spend, too. You can edit, skip, or reschedule your subscription easily. You can also supplement your order with tools like oyster shuckers or add other items such as tinned fish.

Starting Price: $12.99 | Products Arrive: Fresh and frozen | Free Shipping: Yes, for orders more than $125 | Delivery Areas: 48 states

Downeast Dayboat lives up to its namesake, as this company harvests scallops in small quantities in the cold waters just off the coast of Maine. What sets them apart is their incredible freshness, thanks to the short length of time they spend on the boat before they arrive at your house; they’ve only spent hours out of the water, rather than days, before they’re packed and shipped. 

The company keeps no inventory—the scallops are gathered right off the boat and undergo minimal sorting and handling, and they don’t touch any other water after they’re harvested. They’re then either flash-frozen or packed and shipped fresh (depending on seasonal availability) and sent to you within 24 hours of harvest. 

When your scallops arrive, the company’s transparency is apparent. The package indicates the harvest date, where the scallops were harvested, and the name of the angler and their boat. Of course, such dedication to a high-quality and perishable ingredient comes at a cost—these are pricey and so is the shipping at $30 flat rate (unless your order is more than $250). 

Starting Price: $32 for a half-pound of frozen scallops | Products Arrive: Fresh or frozen | Free Shipping: Yes; with orders $250 and up | Delivery Areas: 50 states

Founded by a marine biologist, the Honolulu Fish Company specializes in sourcing sashimi-grade fish from Hawaiian waters. Every morning, sashimi experts examine the day’s catch at the fish market. Based in Honolulu, the company uses hooks rather than nets to catch its bigeye tuna, king salmon, and red deep-sea sweet crab. (Hooks are less disruptive to habitats than nets.) 

Want to order something in addition to sashimi-grade fish? The company sells more than 30 varieties of sustainably caught Pacific fish, but keep in mind that the offerings will change based on what is in season and fresh that day. Orders are shipped fresh to you and arrive within 24 to 48 hours. We just wish the company offered a subscription and made its catches available in amounts less than the minimum size of three pounds.

Starting Price: $53.95 | Products Arrive: Fresh | Free Shipping: Yes | Delivery Areas: 49 states 

This Massachusetts-based business lets you gift a bit of New England by offering the ability to send a live lobster and have it arrive the next day, with free shipping. It’s not every day that you can send lobster to a loved one, but it definitely creates an impact as a gift, albeit at a high cost. 

Lobster Anywhere also offers lobster roll kits, full-fledged lobster dinners, lobster tails, frozen and live lobster, lobster bisque, and various gifts based on holidays such as Valentine’s Day, for example. The company also sells scallops, shrimp, and New England clam chowder. 

Lobsters are caught daily when in season, and the company’s website traces the process from catch to your doorstep. Just keep in mind that you’ll need to order by 3 p.m. EST if you want to take advantage of overnight next-day shipping.

Starting Price: $29.95 | Products Arrive: Fresh and frozen | Free Shipping: Yes | Delivery Areas: 48 states plus parts of Hawaii and Alaska

This employee-owned seafood company sells a variety of kid-friendly foods, including salmon hot dogs, breakfast links, salmon-shaped fish sticks, and even seasoned sausages, all without fillers. Parents will likely appreciate that Blue Circle offers traceable and sustainable seafood with wild-caught and farmed options, and kids will enjoy the fun shapes and approachable flavors. 

The company does not offer subscriptions, but it does feature bundles, which are the equivalent of buying in bulk. Opt for the Omega-3 Warrior box, which contains six bags of four ready-to-cook Atlantic salmon filets. The Wild Sockeye offers the same options, but with wild-caught sockeye salmon. Or try the Grand Crustacean box, with eight 16-ounce bags of raw, tail-on, peeled and deveined shrimp. We only wish that  the farmed and wild-caught boxes were priced differently.

Starting Price: $10 | Products Arrive: Frozen | Free Shipping: Yes, on orders $150+ | Delivery Areas: 48 states