Harvested,Processed & SoldLocally for Over 37 Years

Dana Smith started in the stone crab fishery in 1983. For twenty-five years the business was wholesale crab: traps, boats, buyers, and a lot of early mornings. In 2008 he and Shelly brought it ashore, into a hundred-year-old fish house tucked into the fishing village at Homosassa, and turned it into somewhere you can walk in and buy what came off the boat.

Their son Josh grew up in it and now runs stone crab off his own boat, the Lady Susan. He and his wife Darci work alongside Dana and Shelly. Four people, one operation: the catch comes off the family's boats, through the family's fish house, and across the family's counter.

Buildings like this one once lined the river. Most are gone now, or converted into something with a patio. This one still runs on its original purpose, past the traps stacked by the door and the sign that has read The Fish Market for longer than anyone bothers to date. So when you ask what came in today, the answer is a real answer, and sometimes the honest answer is nothing did, because the weather had other plans.