Santa Monica Seafood

Santa Monica Seafood is an American foodservice distribution company serving the Southwestern United States.

[1] The company also has satellite locations in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Baltimore, Maryland, Chicago, Illinois and Denver, Colorado, allowing it to reach most of the U.S., barring the Southeast.

[1][2][3] John Deluca started the business when he moved from Naples, Italy, to San Pedro, Los Angeles, in 1898 and distributed seafood to support his family.

[2][3] The company buys its food in the morning from fishermen in Morro Bay, Santa Monica, and San Diego.

There are six hundred species of fish and shellfish supplied by the company, including swordfish, dungeness crab, rockfish, and sablefish.