You would think, living in a fishing village where the majority of the residents are fishermen that go out fishing daily in hundreds of fishing boats, in a town where 99% of the menu items in every little beach restaurant is seafood, in a community where almost the entire economy is based on catching, processing and selling seafood, you would think, wouldn't you, that it would be easy to buy fresh seafood?
You would expect that every little local market would have dozens of tables piled high with the catch of the day. And every local fisherman with a corner store in his family (half the town it seems) would have fresh fish, shrimp, octopus, crab, etc.,,etc., piled high for their customers every day. Wouldn't you expect that?
Actually none of our markets or stores have fresh seafood available. Most of the fishermen use boats and equipment owned by two large, and several smaller, fish plants in town and everything they catch, except a small portion for personal use, must go to them. The one exception, recently introduced to us, is a Bodega on Calle 4 on the edge of the marina that sells to the public.
The day we checked it out was after two days of stormy weather, a Norte had been keeping the fisherman on shore. So they didn't have much seafood on hand other then some nice Robalo.
On another day when we wanted fish, we had our local friend Beto take us around in his taxi to this fish bodega and several others. It was later in the day and everyone was out of fish except for one unsigned bodega where Beto knew the people. We would NEVER have found this place without this help and were lucky enough to buy his HUGE Snapper. Chris grilled it up whole on our barbecue and it was a fantastic meal!
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| Huge Snapper we bought at a Celestun fish bodega |
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