Seafood is fresh and nutritious food we get from the seas. We need these foods to get good health. We can purchase seafood like octopus legs, mussels, clams, shrimp , oysters, salmon, scallops, tuna and trout from many seafood markets. Some markets give us the opportunity to buy seafood using the EBT card. Some such top seafood markets are: Boston Public Market, John Yi Fish Market, Portland Fish Market, and Saltwater Seafood Market and Fry Shack. There are also many seafood markets that do not accept EBT cards. But you can buy seafood from your nearest groceries also.
In this article, I write about the seafood markets that accept EBT cards, Seafood markets that do not accept EBT cards and also groceries that accept EBT cards. If you want to know everything, just proceed.
Some Seafood Markets that accept EBT Cards
1. Boston Public Market
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts
- Opening hours: Monday to Tuesday( 8 am to 6 pm )and Wednesday to Saturday (8am to 8pm) , Sunday (10 am to 6 pm.)
- What it offers: They offer fresh and frozen seafood. You can use your EBT card to purchase seafood items and prepare them at home to make delicious menus for lunch or dinner.
- Mailing Address: PO Box 130457, Boston, MA 02113
- Phone: (617) 973-4909
- Website : “bostonpublicmarket.org”.
2. John Yi Fish Market
- Location: Inside the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Opening hours: Monday To Saturday (8 am to 6 pm.), Sunday ( 9 am to 5 pm)
- What it offers: John Yi Fish Market sells some of the freshest seafood in Philadelphia. From this market you get a selection of farmed and wild- caught fish and shellfish, sushi-grade tuna fish and salmon and live lobsters.
- Address: 1136 Arch Street, #400, Philadelphia, PA.
Phone No: 215-923-0487 - Website: “readingterminalmarket.org/merchant/john-yi-fish-market”
3. Portland Fish Market
- Location: Portland, Oregon
- Opening hours: Daily (10 am to 7 am)
- What it offers: Here, you’ll find fish, such as Albacore tuna, black cod, and halibut, shellfish, such as octopus legs, mussels, clams, shrimp, and oysters, and house-smoked seafood, such as salmon, scallops, and trout. Ben Berkowitz and Agnes Berkowitz work together to run the Portland Fish Market. Ben mainly catches fishes and his wife Agnes helps him to process the fishes and run the business.
- Address: 4404 SE Woodstock Blvd. Portland, OR 97206
- Phone No: 503-477-6988
- Website: “portlandfishmarket.com”
4. Saltwater Seafood Market and Fry Shack
- Location: Raleigh, North Carolina.
- Opening hours: Monday( closed) , Tuesday to Friday ( 9 am to 7 pm), Saturday (8.30 am to 6 pm), and Sunday (9 am to 4 pm).
- What it offers: Here you’ll find a wide range of fresh and frozen fish and shellfish, such as blue crabs, catfish, clams, cod, rainbow trout, salmon, shrimp, snapper, scallops, and live lobster.
- Address: 4 Fenton Street, Raleigh, NC 27604
- Phone No: (919) 834-1813
- Website: “saltwaterseafoodnc.com/market-specials”.
You May Buy Seafood With EBT Cards From These Grocery Stores
You can consider your nearby Grocery Stores to purchase seafood with EBT card. Most of the Grocery Stores accept EBT cards. If you don’t live near a seafood market that accepts EBT cards, you can purchase fish and shellfish, like salmon, shrimp, and cod at many grocery stores.
You can get seafood at these grocery stores that accept EBT:
- Albertsons
- ALDI
- BJ’s Wholesale Club
- Costco
- Food Lion
- Giant Eagle
- Hy-Vee
- Kroger
- Publix
- Safeway
- Sam’s Club
- Target
- Trader Joe’s
- Wegmans
- Whole Foods
- WinCo Foods
Now You Can Order Seafood Online From Grocery Stores That Accept EBT
In the past, a person only got the opportunity to use the EBT card to buy seafood through in store purchase only. So, if he/she wanted to shop seafood online, then he/she wasn’t able to use the EBT card to pay for the bill. Fortunately, that’s not the case anymore.
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) now has a pilot program, called the SNAP Online Purchasing Pilot (URL: “fns.usda.gov/snap/online“) which allows people who get SNAP benefits and use their EBT card to purchase items like seafood from the nearest groceries online.
So, if you want to purchase seafood online with your EBT card, then it is now easily possible through this pilot program.
Seafood Places That DON’T Accept EBT
Unfortunately, a mentionable number of Seafood places do not accept EBT Cards in the United States. Here I give a list of Seafood places that do not accept EBT card:
- 4th Street Shrimp Store
- Andria’s Seafood Restaurant & Market
- Arthur Treacher’s Fish and Chips
- Atlantic Seafood Market
- Bahama Breeze
- Bonefish Grill
- Bubba Gump Shrimp Company
- Captain Ds Seafood
- Carolina Meat & Fish Co.
- Conrad’s Crab & Seafood Market
- Crab Cake Cafe
- Crab Cake Café
- Crab Pot ATL
- Crabby Bil’s
- Jersey City Fish Stand
- Joe’s Crab Shack
- King’s Fish House
- Legal Seafoods
- Long John Silver’s
- Mac’s Seafood Markets
- McCormick and Schmick’s
- McGrath’s Fish House
- Milwaukee Public Market/St. Paul Fish Company
- Monahan’s Seafood Market
- Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen
- Pappas Seafood Co.
- Red Lobster
- Rockfish Seafood Grill
- San Pedro Fish Market
- Santa Monica Seafood Market & Café
- Shells Restaurant
- Paul Fish Company
- The Crazy Crab
- The District Fishwife
- The Lobster Place Seafood Market
- Truluck’s Seafood Steak and Crab House
Summary
SNAP benefits help people who are homeless, disabled, elderly, and low-income. A low-income person gets food benefits through the EBT card. An EBT card helps you to access your benefits just like a debit card does.
There are seafood market places like Boston Public Market, John Yi Fish Market, Portland Fish Market, and Saltwater Seafood Market and Fry Shack that surely accept EBT cards. There are many groceries that accept EBT cards to purchase seafood, and some accept online orders for seafood with EBT cards. We may hope that opportunities will spread day by day and buying seafood with an EBT card will be more available in future days.
