Gloucester At Dawn-
This morning at 4:40AM I swung by the Gloucester Seafood Display Auction to show you guys what happens before the auction actually takes place. There were 3 fish buying representatives going through each lot of fish and grading it for quality. I spoke with old friend of the family and good guy Louie Linquata who works for North Coast Seafoods. I did an interview with him that is uploading as we speak.
We used to sell a good portion of the fish that came over our docks to North Coast Seafoods. Norm and Jim Stavis, the owners of North Coast Seafood in Boston were demanding but fair fish buyers. They wanted the best and treated us well as our fleet consisted of mainly day boat fishermen. Then the Auction came to town and as highly efficient a way to unload and distribute it is – it made our operation and many of the other offloading facilities around the harbor obsolete.
Here are some freshly caught codfish that will be auctioned off by about 7AM this morning and on trucks to Boston or New York to be processed and distributed.
Video interview with Louie Linquata from inside the auction this morning will be up at 10AM
Gloucester Seafood Display Auction- Market Cod, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Good Morning Gloucester 
Can we purchase these fish? Maybe they should
also have a little fish market, as part of the Fish Auction Bldg, where locals can buy some of these
“right from the ocean” fish. Just a small market,
maybe open from 9 to noon and when it’s gone, that’s it for the day.
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There are a ton of new fish markets in Gloucester. The Auction is not allowed to have a fish market as far as I know. There would be a potential for conflict I think.
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Let’s face it Joey. The auction doesn’t have to make a conflict. It comes to them whether they want it or not.. Thanks to so called people who are suppose to be for the industry. Maybe I shouldn’t have said that here but I”m so disgusted right now I don’t care.
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