Gulf Brown Shrimp
Medium 26–30 count
Sweet, wild-caught brown shrimp out of Galveston Bay. Heads-off, peel-and-eat ready. Great on the grill or in a quick garlic butter.
Daily landings from Galveston Bay boats. Prices marked per pound, no surprises at the register.
Three generations cleaning fish the old way — by hand, on cracked ice, the same morning it lands.
We buy direct from the boats, skip the middleman, and pass the savings down the counter.
Local delivery across Texas City, La Marque, and Dickinson — orders in by 11am ship same day.
Find us off I-45 in Texas City. Plenty of parking, ice for the ride home, and coolers welcome.
Discount Seafood Market started as a single ice chest and a hand-painted sign off the I-45 service road, three generations ago. Back then, my grandfather would meet the shrimp boats at first light, haul the catch back in the bed of his pickup, and sell it straight off the ice before noon. The name said it plainly — discount, because we cut out the wholesaler and the markup landed in your basket instead.
Twenty-six years later, the counter is bigger, the coolers are stainless, and we still meet the same Galveston Bay boats at dawn. Every snapper is filleted by hand. Every crab is sorted live. Every oyster is shucked to order. Nothing sits in a freezer for weeks wearing a "fresh" label — if it didn't swim yesterday, it doesn't make our case today.
That's the whole pitch. No loyalty app, no membership, no inflated dock price with a coupon to make you feel like you won. Just the going rate, written on the board in chalk, the same price the restaurants pay before they mark it up three times.
Prices are per pound unless marked, written on the board the morning the boats land. Availability shifts with the season and the weather — call ahead for large orders or anything specific.
Sweet, wild-caught brown shrimp out of Galveston Bay. Heads-off, peel-and-eat ready. Great on the grill or in a quick garlic butter.
Big, firm Texan whites. Headless, deveined, packed in 1-pound bags. The grill-and-go choice for backyard boils.
Whole snapper off the boats each morning, filleted while you wait. Skin-on or off — your call. Firm, mild, the Gulf classic.
Flat, delicate, and a Texas City favorite. Stuff the whole fish and bake it, or take fillets for a quick pan-sear with lemon.
Heavy, meaty fillets that hold up to blackening or a long braise. Limited landings — first come, first on the list.
Pulled from the traps at dawn, kept live in our tanks. Pick your own, or have us steam them in Old Bay while you wait.
Briny, mineral, Gulf Coast oysters shucked while you watch. By the dozen or the half-bushel for backyard roasts.
Whole lumps, no shell, no filler. The backfin of the blue crab — what you want for crab cakes and stuffed flounder.
Friday and Saturday only. Pick any three pounds of cut fish — snapper, flounder, grouper — seasoned and fry-ready.
Three pounds of shrimp, a half-dozen live crab, corn, and sausage — bagged with our boil spice. Call ahead to reserve.
Every Tuesday, 55 and better get ten percent off anything in the case. No card, no app — we'll take your word for it.
When the boats run south of the jetty, mahi shows up firm and clean. Great blackened or on the grill with mango salsa.
We're not a fancy counter and we don't try to be. The reason our prices read lower is simple: we buy direct, sell fast, and skip every middleman between the boat and your kitchen.
We're at the dock at 5am, six days a week, buying off Galveston Bay shrimp boats and day-boat fishermen. No wholesaler, no cold-storage warehouse, no auction middleman.
If it didn't land today, it doesn't go in the case. What doesn't sell by closing goes home with the staff — nothing carries over to tomorrow.
Fillets are cut to order on the same kind of cracked-ice counter my grandfather built. No pre-cut trays under plastic, no gas-flushed packaging.
Chalk on slate, every morning, per pound. No membership, no coupons, no "loyalty price." The restaurants pay the same number you do.
Open seven days a week with plenty of parking, ice for the ride home, and coolers welcome. Local delivery runs Tuesday through Saturday for orders over $40.
Boats land at dawn — the freshest pick is always before noon.
We run a refrigerated delivery route across the upper Galveston County area Tuesday through Saturday. Orders in by 11am ship the same afternoon, packed on gel ice.
$40 minimum · $8 flat fee · Free over $100. Call ahead to set up a recurring order for your restaurant or shrimp boil.
The board changes every morning with the boats. The fastest way to lock in a big order, a whole snapper, or a weekend boil pack is to call the counter — we'll have it cut, packed, and waiting with your name on it.
Discount Seafood Market · Texas City, TX · On the causeway, off I-45