Commercial porgy among a few Delmarva fisheries pushing consumer interest in local, wild seafood
SEAFOOD.COM NEWS April 14, 2014
Although many of the thousands of visitors streaming across the Harry W. Kelley Memorial Bridge aren't aware of it, Ocean City's commercial fishing harbor is tucked quietly along Harbor Road in West Ocean City, providing a picturesque view for diners at the handful of surrounding restaurants.
Amid a backdrop of waterfront eateries and bait shops sit a variety of boats. A father and son's gillnetters are tied alongside each other, as sister ships Instigator and Starbrite unload at Southern Connections Seafood and Martin Fish Co.
Lobster boats line the other side of the harbor.
"We're trying to keep the harbor robust," says Merrill Campbell of Southern Connections Seafood.
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