Locals Select is our carefully curated collection of premium seafood from trusted sources beyond North Carolina, featuring specialty items like Maine lobster and Wild Alaskan salmon that simply aren't available in our local waters. Created in response to years of requests from our most loyal customers, every Locals Select product meets the same exacting standards for quality, sustainability, and traceability that define our core North Carolina seafood program.

The dream to open a market struck Speckman after living among commercial fishermen in the Outer Banks. 

The business started with a truck and cooler on the side of the road. But one truck has turned into a thriving market that shares the best seafood on the coast.

The seafood industry is largely decentralized. But a new Locals Seafood market and processing facility in East Raleigh is helping get seafood to more North Carolinians.

Ryan Speckman's day begins around 6am, when he starts firing calls and texts to fishermen up and down the North Carolina coast — What did you reel in? How many pounds do you have? he asks.

So begins the daily dance and logistical puzzle of bringing fresh seafood from the state's sounds and coastal waters to the Triangle's restaurants and grocery stores.

Lin joined host Amber Freeman at CBS 17 My Carolina to share the fundamentals of preparing shrimp at home. From heading to peeling and deveining, Lin informs viewers of all the basic

Locals Seafood opens a full-service fish market in East Raleigh with a restaurant on the horizon.

It’s ofishal: Locals Seafood has a new home in the City of Oaks. Since closing its popular oyster bar at Transfer Co. Food Hall in 2022, Locals—which supplies restaurants and grocery stores throughout the Triangle with the freshest NC seafood—has been working hard to build out a new HQ off of New Bern Avenue in East Raleigh. Now, that space has received a face-lift (think a brick exterior painted a deep ocean blue and bright white signage) and is ready to welcome the city’s seafood lovers to shop, shuck and socialize.

A Raleigh business known for serving North Carolina seafood has opened its new space.

A giant seafood market will open in Raleigh this month, making the coast seem closer than ever.

Locals Seafood was honored to have been featured in the short film UGLY & WILD by Vittles Films, profiling our business of moving fresh seafood from the North Carolina coast to the Triangle.