Fresh Gulf seafood on ice at Discount Seafood Market
Gulf Brown Shrimp $8.99/lb Live Blue Crab $4.50/each Red Snapper Fillet $19.99/lb Apalachicola Oysters $14.99/doz Wild Gulf Flounder $16.99/lb Fresh Snapper Grouper $22.99/lb Gulf Brown Shrimp $8.99/lb Live Blue Crab $4.50/each Red Snapper Fillet $19.99/lb Apalachicola Oysters $14.99/doz Wild Gulf Flounder $16.99/lb Fresh Snapper Grouper $22.99/lb
Open today · 7am – 7pm · Texas City, TX

Gulf-fresh seafood at honest dockside prices.

Today's landing
Brown shrimp · Snapper · Crab
From the dock
Galveston Bay boats, every dawn
Same-day delivery
Texas City · La Marque · Dickinson

A family counter on the causeway, since 1998.

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.

26
Years on the causeway
5am
Boat pickup, every dawn
40+
Species through the year
7
Days a week, open
Fishmonger hand-filleting fresh red snapper on cracked ice
"If it didn't swim yesterday, it doesn't make our case today."

What's on the ice this week.

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.

Fresh today

Gulf Brown Shrimp
Medium 26–30 count

$8.99/lb

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.

Fresh today

Jumbo White Shrimp
U-15 count

$15.99/lb

Big, firm Texan whites. Headless, deveined, packed in 1-pound bags. The grill-and-go choice for backyard boils.

Filleted to order

Red Snapper Fillet
Wild Gulf

$19.99/lb

Whole snapper off the boats each morning, filleted while you wait. Skin-on or off — your call. Firm, mild, the Gulf classic.

Filleted to order

Wild Gulf Flounder
Whole or fillet

$16.99/lb

Flat, delicate, and a Texas City favorite. Stuff the whole fish and bake it, or take fillets for a quick pan-sear with lemon.

Filleted to order

Snapper Grouper
Wild Gulf

$22.99/lb

Heavy, meaty fillets that hold up to blackening or a long braise. Limited landings — first come, first on the list.

Live, sorted daily

Live Blue Crab
Large, 6" +

$4.50/each

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.

Shucked to order

Apalachicola Oysters
Half-shell

$14.99/doz

Briny, mineral, Gulf Coast oysters shucked while you watch. By the dozen or the half-bushel for backyard roasts.

Hand-picked

Jumbo Lump Crabmeat
Pasturized, 1 lb tub

$38.99/lb

Whole lumps, no shell, no filler. The backfin of the blue crab — what you want for crab cakes and stuffed flounder.

Friday special

Fish Fry Bucket
Any 3 lbs, mixed

$32/bucket

Friday and Saturday only. Pick any three pounds of cut fish — snapper, flounder, grouper — seasoned and fry-ready.

Weekend boil

Shrimp & Crab Boil Pack
Serves 4

$48/pack

Three pounds of shrimp, a half-dozen live crab, corn, and sausage — bagged with our boil spice. Call ahead to reserve.

Senior Tuesday

Tuesday Senior Discount
10% off the case

–10%all day

Every Tuesday, 55 and better get ten percent off anything in the case. No card, no app — we'll take your word for it.

Seasonal

Gulf Mahi-Mahi
Fillet, skin-on

$17.99/lb

When the boats run south of the jetty, mahi shows up firm and clean. Great blackened or on the grill with mango salsa.

The same fish the restaurants serve — half the check.

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.

Fresh Gulf shrimp and blue crab packed on ice for a customer order

Direct from the boats

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.

Same morning, same case

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.

Cut by hand, on cracked ice

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.

The price on the board is the price

Chalk on slate, every morning, per pound. No membership, no coupons, no "loyalty price." The restaurants pay the same number you do.

Pull off I-45, we're on the causeway.

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.

Open seven days

  • Monday7:00am – 7:00pm
  • Tuesday7:00am – 7:00pm
  • Wednesday7:00am – 7:00pm
  • Thursday7:00am – 7:00pm
  • Friday7:00am – 8:00pm
  • Saturday6:30am – 8:00pm
  • Sunday8:00am – 5:00pm

Boats land at dawn — the freshest pick is always before noon.

Local delivery

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.

Texas City La Marque Dickinson San Leon Bacliff Bayshore

$40 minimum · $8 flat fee · Free over $100. Call ahead to set up a recurring order for your restaurant or shrimp boil.

Reserve a catch, or just ask what landed today.

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

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