Seahouses also has a working fishing port, which also serves the tourist trade, being the embarkation point for visits to the Farne Islands.

From shops in the town and booths along the harbour, several boat companies operate, offering various packages which may include inter alia landing on at least one Farne, seeing seals and seabirds, and hearing a commentary on the islands and the Grace Darling story or scuba diving on the many Farne Islands wrecks.

Independent until its final closure, it formed a standard gauge rail link between the village and Chathill Station on the East Coast Main Line.

[3] The site of Seahouses station is now the town car park and the trackbed between village and North Sunderland is a public footpath.

Seahouses is within the civil parish of North Sunderland and the Northumberland County Council electoral division of Bamburgh.