Tips When Picking Up Your Live Spot Prawns

We will put your live spot prawns in plastic bags, and you can bring them home to prepare and serve.

You may also bring a cooler with gel packs or ice-- just enough to lay the spot prawns over until you get home. You want to be careful when the ice melts because the live spot prawns will die if you submerge them into tap water.

For large order deliveries, we recommend you having a cooler full of ice or gel packs ready so we can measure and put them in there for you.

If you aren't going to eat your live spot prawns right away, you must take the heads off (twist and pull). When they die, they release an enzyme causing their bodies to get soft and mushy. Taking the heads off will prevent this

After you remove the heads, give the tails a rinse and they can be stored in the fridge for a couple of days, or in the freezer for up to nine months.

Don't throw the heads away! They make a rich and flavourful stock, or you can fry 'em up for an unconventional treat. It's always exciting to try something new, hey?

Fabulously Fresh

As an English teacher abroad, I lived for a year in a small, remote fishing village on the northern-most coast of Japan’s northern-most island. I love fresh fish and ate it there to my heart’s content. Now back in land-locked Alberta, I actively seek it out. I love B.C. Live Spot Prawns because they’ll ship the best right to my door. It’s fabulous! Frozen, but obviously frozen when it was still fresh. And so sweet! I especially love the steaks, because although they’re a bit trickier to eat, I find fish on the bone sweeter than filets. Highly recommended!

Fresh and high quality

Keeping always fresh and high quality seafood. Thanks

As Close to the Ocean As We Can Get

Coho so fresh it's like being on the boat. Beautiful deep orange colour, firm flesh, smells like the ocean. We've eaten it smoked, poached, baked, grilled, fried and steamed. A treat everytime.

Tuna

Tuna came in small pieces and one package had a bit of freezer burn. Little disappointed as have had things from here which was high quality.

Tender, Flaky, Halibut

We had ordered a whole halibut in the summer, promptly ate the whole thing and made stock with the bones. We loved it so much that we ordered 10 lbs Halibut fillets. They are absolutely fresh and tender and I've variously prepared them breaded and fried, baked, poached, steamed, smoked. This is top quality seafood.

Tips When Picking Up Your Live Spot Prawns

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