The Top 25: Seafood Sustainability & Conservation


Our business was recognized as a 2020 finalist in SeafoodSource’s Top 25 list highlighting sustainability-minded suppliers transforming the North American industry

We didn’t get to be the BIG FISH by ignoring the little guy.


Santa Monica Seafood has hundreds of boutique restaurant and retail clients who understand that their customers demand quality seafood that is safe, delicious, traceable, and locally-sourced whenever possible.


We have a LOT of seafood. Seriously… a REALLY big selection of seafood.

We have over 600 different seafood and shellfish products AVAILABLE DAILY. Yes, every day. We’re not talking about special orders. We’re talking about seafood that we can have at your door tomorrow.

Seriously Committed to Responsibly Sourced Seafood.

When you’ve been doing something you love for more than 75 years, it makes you care about the future. As a result, we’ve led the way on many fronts: We were the first seafood distributor to enter into a formal partnership with the Monterey Bay Aquarium; working with them to apply their rankings to our inventory.


Santa Monica Seafood is Southern California’s full-service fresh and frozen seafood processor and distributor since 1939.


We offer a wide range of services and have well-trained sales and customer service staff available to handle all your seafood needs. We deliver six days a week in refrigerated trucks to California, Las Vegas-NV, Phoenix-AZ region, New Mexico, and West Texas.

Our Mission

Santa Monica Seafood’s mission is to provide the highest quality and selection of seafood products at fair and reasonable prices while recognizing the importance of conservation and maintenance of a healthy environment.

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First in Food Safety

We are the first and only seafood company in the United States to achieve the internationally recognized FSSC 22000 certification on our food safety systems. This certification helps ensure that you are buying from a company with the best food manufacturing systems in the world, that our products consistently meet all quality, safety and labeling requirements, and that we have greater consistency and tracability of our products…

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