Striped Bass
Striped bass have silver-white skin with distinctive black horizontal stripes. They are mild, delicate, and slightly sweet in flavor. The flesh is bright white, flaky, and moderately firm. Frugé’s striped bass matures in a natural pond environment which is monitored around the clock all year long. These fish have no antibiotics, no hormones, and no pollutants. Harvested fish are chilled in an ice slurry, graded, boxed, and immediately transported from pond directly to Frugé Seafood, then trimmed to your specs and delivered to you. It doesn’t get any fresher than that!
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Notes from our buyer
Gulf Oysters
Louisiana is up and running pretty well. We will have Goldbands and Wine Islands all week. Our guys in Texas are transplanting this week. We have some sacks in this week and hopefully will be back to normal next week.
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Salmon fillets
Chile is celebrating their Independence Day for three days, so we will have some nice Bay of Fundy salmon from Canada next week to make up the missed delivery.
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American Red Snapper
The Mexican fleet is starting to fish for American reds and grouper more. The Europeans are putting pressure on them to drop the octopus price, so they are freezing the product and fishing for fish. Louisiana and Texas are starting to catch more as well.
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East Coast Oysters
We are getting in some great new oysters such as Lucky Lime oysters and Plymouth Rock oysters. Please get with your sales person for details and pre-orders.
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Wild Coho Salmon
Copper River coho is looking great. Get it while it lasts
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Swordfish
Prices are right and production is rolling. We will have a nice shot this weekend.
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Grouper
Grouper is available and great for features.
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Striped Bass
Our farmed striped bass is from right here in Texas. It is harvested, transported, prepared, and shipped under controlled temps. This increases the quality and shelf life for you.
Halibut
We have some beautiful halibut in. Keep it on the special board; it won’t be around forever.
Redfish
Production has slowed down again. Looking like only extra jumbo redfish for a while with tight supply.
Black Drum
We will have some nice drum for the week
Tuna
Tuna is still tight and expensive.
Mahi Mahi
We are seeing a little more mahi in the market. I hope this marks the beginning of the new season. Prices are not great but are much better than the past few months.
Fresh Crabmeat
Fresh domestic crab meat is tightening up a little. As the summer ends, it gets more difficult to get what we want.
Steelhead will be in for the weekend.
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Domestic Catfish
Prices are nice and production is good on 5-7 sizes and up.
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Scallops
Pricing is steady and quality is great.
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Scottish Salmon Fillets
Prices are steady, and the product is excellent.
Shark
We will be getting some nice mako shark straight from Hawaii for the weekend!
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Mongchong, Opah, and Barracuda
Looking for something from Hawaii??? We have a great partner over there that supplies us with fantastic fish from the Hawaiian waters.
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Seabass
We offer 20-30 kg seabass as well as pre-cut fillets. Get with your sales rep for details.
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East Coast Oysters
Frugé has a wide variety of East Coast oysters available. We send out an availability list each week of what we have to offer. If you are not yet receiving this list, please get with your sales rep and they will gladly add you to the email list.
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Cod, Sole, and Haddock
These East Coast treats are a great change to your feature board! With the movement of business travelers and transplants from all over, you don’t want to miss out on some great valued fish to add to your menu or feature board. We only bring in what you want, so get your pre-orders in now.
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Live Lobsters
We offer a full range of sizes of live lobsters straight from Maine and Canada. Order today, and we will get them to you tomorrow.
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Rainbow ‘Green’, Golden, and Ruby trout
Green trout is what the guys on the farm call the regular rainbow trout. Since they have ruby and golden as well, it is just a term they use to distinguish between the three. Our ‘green’ trout is what every sales person calls rainbow trout. Red and golden continue to be very tight. The end is not in sight yet.