Seattle · Puget Sound · Pacific coast
Follow the catch.
An independent field guide to the boats, fish counters, kitchens and seasons that make Seattle a seafood city.
Choose your bearing
Three ways into Seattle's seafood story.
Start with a captain, a fishmonger, or a plate. Every listing points straight to the people doing the work.
Fishing charters
Get on the water
Puget Sound salmon and lingcod trips out of Shilshole and Edmonds, plus Westport charters for halibut and offshore bottomfish.
Seafood markets
Meet the catch
Pike Place counters, Fishermen's Terminal dock sales, and neighborhood fishmongers across the city.
Restaurants
Eat by the Sound
Where locals actually eat seafood — from raw bars in Ballard to the Fremont crab-roll line.
Season watch
What's moving now.
A planning snapshot, never a guarantee. Washington openings move with quotas and emergency rule changes.
Puget Sound recreational Dungeness crab has been open since July 2 in most Marine Areas (2 days/week in Seattle-area waters).
Tentative summer hatchery Chinook openers land in late July: Marine Area 9 (Admiralty Inlet) July 16–18, Marine Area 10 (Seattle/Bremerton) July 23–25.
The main Puget Sound halibut season ran April 2 – June 30; any late-summer re-openings depend on remaining quota.
Copper River salmon season (Alaska) runs into September, so it's still showing up at Pike Place counters — see our buying guide.
Timing is based on 2026 WDFW announcements as of mid-2026 and changes with in-season quota updates. Always check WDFW before you fish. Full detail on our seasonal calendar.
Beyond the seawall
Seattle seafood, shipped.
Our buying guide compares shippers carrying real Pacific Northwest wild seafood and explains what to check before ordering.