Fathom Seafood

Name

Fathom Seafood

Legal name

Fathom Seafood

Website

https://fathomseafood.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Fresh and Live Seafood Distribution

NAICS

Fish and Seafood Merchant Wholesalers (42446), Seafood Product Preparation and Packaging (31171), Fish and Seafood Retailers (44525), Packaged Frozen Food Merchant Wholesalers (424420)

SIC

Prepared Fresh Or Frozen Fish & Seafoods (2092), Wholesale-Groceries & Related Products (5140)

akta.pro primary industry

Live Seafood & Tank-Based Distribution Wholesale (AFAIADAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Seafood Wholesale (Fresh & Frozen) (AFAIADAD), Fresh & Frozen Seafood Fillets (Portioned, Skinless/Boneless) (AFANALAA), Refrigerated Meat & Seafood (Processed/Packaged) (CRADACAK)

Keywords

• Live seafood distribution
• Wholesale seafood supplier
• Fresh fish delivery
• Dungeness crab sales
• Pacific northwest seafood

Headquarters

HQ city

Tacoma

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Seafood Product Sales (Direct to Consumer): Direct sales of live, fresh, and frozen seafood products to individual consumers through e-commerce platform with 24-hour delivery.
2. Wholesale Seafood Distribution: B2B sales of seafood products to restaurant groups, wholesalers, distributors, importers, and grocery stores with more than 20 wholesale customers worldwide.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Fathom Seafood is a vertically integrated seafood company that sources, processes, and distributes live, fresh, and frozen seafood—primarily Dungeness crab, salmon, black cod, halibut, geoduck, and ikura—directly to consumers via its own e-commerce site and to wholesale buyers worldwide. The company operates three brands (Fathom Seafood, Alaska Ice, Franco Fish) and uses proprietary low-salt brining and nitrogen freezing to deliver premium Pacific Northwest seafood within 24 hours.

Product overview

Fathom Seafood is a vertically integrated seafood provider offering live, fresh, and frozen seafood products through multiple brands. The company operates three category-leading brands: Fathom Seafood (flagship brand with Dungeness crab and fin fish), Alaska Ice (specializing in wild and farmed geoduck), and Franco Fish (premium ikura). Product portfolio includes Live Dungeness Crab, Dungeness Crab Meat, Black Cod/Sablefish, King Salmon, Coho Salmon, Chum Salmon, Halibut, Pacific Northwest Live Geoduck, and Ikura. The company offers direct-to-consumer online ordering with 24-hour shipping, as well as a wholesale program serving more than 20 wholesale customers worldwide including restaurants, markets, and international distributors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Fathom Seafood: Flagship brand offering Dungeness crab and a full range of fin fish.
• Alaska Ice
• Franco Fish

Products and services

• Live Dungeness Crab

Quantifiable outcome

• Ships over 1.5 million pounds of live crab annually to customers
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Shinkei SystemsminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 February 2026Shinkei Systems acquired Fathom Seafood's 16,000-square-foot fish processing facility at 2544 S. Fawcett Ave., Tacoma, Washington for $4.2 million in February 2026. Fathom consolidated operations to its Marine View Drive headquarters. Shinkei plans to convert the facility into its first wild-caught fish processing plant.
• Saxum Investment CompanycoreOthersPort of Tacoma approved a 50-year ground lease for Saxum Investment Company to develop a 550,000-square-foot cold storage and food processing facility. The $250 million project was originally proposed by Fathom Seafood in 2025 and is expected to generate 400 jobs with $43 million in annual wages.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Trident Seafoods: Major Alaska-based vertically integrated seafood company with broad product portfolio (salmon, crab, whitefish, smoked/portioned) and large processing footprint. Comparable as a Pacific seafood incumbent with similar species exposure to Fathom.

Direct peers

• Wild Alaskan Company: Subscription-based DTC seafood brand sourcing wild-caught Alaskan salmon and other seafood for nationwide home delivery. Directly comparable to Fathom's DTC motion via fathomseafood.com, focused on sustainability and traceability messaging.
• Vital Choice: Direct-to-consumer premium seafood (and related health-focused) brand shipping wild-caught salmon, crab, and other Pacific seafood nationwide. Closest DTC analog to Fathom's fathomseafood.com channel with comparable premium wild-caught positioning.
• Seattle Fish Company: Specialty seafood distributor serving restaurants, retailers, and institutional buyers with a focus on responsibly sourced seafood. Comparable in B2B specialty distribution and sourcing-driven positioning to Fathom's wholesale channel.
• Ocean Beauty Seafoods: Alaska-rooted, family-owned seafood processor and distributor with Pacific species portfolio (salmon, crab, halibut) and broad domestic wholesale reach. Comparable species mix and B2B distribution model to Fathom's wholesale arm.
• Pacific Seafood: One of the largest US seafood companies, headquartered in the Pacific Northwest, vertically integrated from harvesting through processing, wholesale, and foodservice/retail distribution. Closest large-scale analog to Fathom's vertically integrated Pacific NW model.
• Copper River Seafoods: Alaska-based specialty seafood processor and distributor focused on salmon, crab, and other premium Pacific species for retail and foodservice. Closely comparable in species mix and premium positioning, similar mid-market scale to Fathom.

Emerging players

• Catalina Offshore Products: San Diego-based specialty seafood purveyor with strong direct-to-restaurant and retail presence in California. Comparable premium specialty supplier dynamic, though more Southern California-anchored vs. Fathom's Pacific NW base.
• Lummi Island Wild: Pacific Northwest premium seafood cooperative marketing wild salmon, Dungeness crab, and other PNW species direct to consumers and wholesalers. Comparable small-scale, sustainability-led Pacific NW seafood brand positioned similarly to Fathom Seafood's flagship line.

Regional players

• Norpac Fisheries Export: Hawaii-based seafood processor and exporter with Pacific species exposure (ahi, opah, other deepwater fish) and international wholesale reach. Comparable Pacific seafood processor model with cross-border distribution scaling similar to Fathom's wholesale ambition.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/FathomSeafood
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/fathomseafood

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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