Featured Seafood: PEI Mussels

Eye-catching and delicious. Prince Edward Island mussels can be served as a star-appetizer with white wine garlic sauce, savory beer, or Spanish-style chorizo. Or, have them complement soups, pasta dishes or coconut curry.

Explore What We Have to Offer

We carry over one hundred species! From whole fish to fillet and value-added to skin packs, we have what you need.

Calamari

Calamari is a customer favorite, loved for its versatility, visual appeal, and quick cooking time. We offer squid in several frozen specs including whole, steaks, rings, tubes, rings & tentacles, and tubes & tentacles (3-5” or 5-8”).

USA Catfish

Join the catfish craze! This product is puurrrfect. It’s delicious, domestic, and sustainable! Our catfish is available whole, fillets (skin-off), pan-ready, or as nuggets. These catfish formats are available both fresh and frozen.

The Ultimate in Quality Seafood (Since 1975)

Since the beginning, we have relied on the dedication and perseverance of our employees. By outhustling the competition and a feverish search for the best available fish, we established ourselves throughout the years as: “The Ultimate in Quality Seafood”.

Mahi Mahi

The fish so nice they named it twice. Known for its sweet and succulent taste, Mahi Mahi is in fresh supply from Costa Rica and Mexico.

Behind the Scenes

Get a glimpse of what life is like in our processing plant and on our dock. We have a YouTube playlist featuring short, fun videos of what it takes for us to be the ultimate in quality seafood.

Black Cod aka Sablefish

Black cod is one of the healthiest fish on the market as it has even more Omega-3’s than salmon! This local, sustainable catch is sought after for it’s buttery, velvet texture due to it’s high-oil content, which is why some also refer to it as butterfish.

Stay Connected on Social Media

View product highlights, filleting videos, season opener alerts, and backyard cooking demos. We’re active on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. We’d love your support on our new channels!

USA Rainbow Trout

Our rainbow trout is raised in the pristine spring waters of Idaho’s Rocky Mountains. Not only is this fish delicious and versatile, but it’s rated as a green “Best Choice” for its environmental sustainability according to Seafood Watch.

Sea Scallops

Succulent, tender, and irresistible! These ocean jewels are known for their mouthwatering sweetness and buttery texture. Whether seared to perfection, added to your favorite pasta, or enjoyed raw as sashimi, they’re a seafood lover’s dream.

Local Petrale Sole

This delicate buttery flatfish is local to the US West Coast and is very versatile with a mild and sweet, nutty flavor.

West Coast Rock Cod

Rockfish, aka rock cod, is a local West Coast fish with an amazing conservation success story. Support the next chapter in the recovery of our local seafood economy by choosing this versatile whitefish.

An Array of Sustainable Products

A broad range of sustainable seafood products and packaging options so you can play your part for our planet.

Steelhead Trout

Our steelhead trout is a must-try for any salmon lover! Its vibrant color is eye-catching, and the taste is irresistible.

Over 45 Years of Quality Products

Lusamerica – The Ultimate in Quality Seafood

Since 1975, Lusamerica relied on the dedication and perseverance of a handful of employees. By out-hustling the competition and combing the local fishing piers at all hours of the day and night in a feverish search for the best available fish, Lusamerica began to establish itself as “The Ultimate in Quality Seafood”, which became the slogan and “motto” of the company that has been earned and upheld throughout the years.

Lusamerica offers grocery retailers, foodservice operators, restaurants and broad-line distributors a reliable source of domestic and imported seafood with innovative value-added seafood products. As a wholesale distributor, we serve both small and large volume customers from our multiple locations along the West Coast.

 

Lusamerica Foods, being a local family owned company, is uniquely positioned to participate in the restoration of commercial fishing in the Monterey Bay. We have long standing relationships with the local fishermen, from whom we purchased and processed local Monterey products two decades ago. We have the local retail outlets to feature and promote this local product, and the demand for local, sustainable seafood has never been greater. This unique synergy is a recipe for success due to our commitment to promoting local, Monterey Bay seafood and to revitalize this long-standing Monterey tradition.

 

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Sustainability

We have longstanding commitments to provide sustainable seafood to meet our customers’ initiatives. We are partnered with major certification programs to offer a broad range of sustainable seafood products.

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Quality

With our ability to source products worldwide, we provide consistent, high quality seafood to our customers 365 days a year. Whether it is fresh, frozen, domestic or imported.

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Customer Service

Our customers’ success depends on our daily commitment to service. We have the people, systems and infrastructure to ensure our customers success.

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Products

We have developed dependable, direct sources of seafood from all over the world. We offer trend setting and innovative value-added products to enhance our customers’ fresh seafood offerings.

Educational Information

Seafood Facts Guide

An informational guide to learn about the variety of finfish and shellfish products.

Tips, Recipes, News And more

Chefs Corner

Please click below for seafood recipes, tips, ideas and much more from our Executive Chef Sion.

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We Want to Hear From You!

Contact our sales team to answer all your questions. We’re happy to help. 

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About Lusamerica

Family, woman and minority owned since 1975 distributing seafood to the Western United States and beyond.

Tel: (408) 778-7200  |  toll free: (800) 974-6622  |  email: info@lusamerica.com

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