Week of April 6, 2026 - Small World Seafood Update

Hello everybody!!

This is a week where we also do Saturday pick ups in Queen Village (9am to 10:30am) and then onto Moore Brothers in Peensauken (11am til 12:30pm).

I hope everyone had a lovely Easter weekend and Passover too. It's certainly a strange kind of world right now. While the city is abloom with color and the sun feels warming and bright giving us a small sense of optimism and comfort, the rest of the world feels like it is hanging in the balance.

We can all feel the effects of higher gas prices at the pump as well as the prospect of higher prices at the store too. We've just been here a few years back and we saw it happen. Well, similar to the last time around, boats are thinking twice about go out primarily because, well, fuel is twice the cost. Twice. Where the trips were costing 10 to 15 thousand dollars, they are now costing 20-30 thousand dollars. So, you better know where the fish is and you better get the bid on price. 

But as everyone is doing in the commodity business as well as investors in just about everything else, people are just sitting back and waiting for certainty. Will the conflict end quickly so prices can get back to normal or will it last longer and lift all prices with it. (Please don't send me your opinions on this. I am describing the situation as a point of fact and not a point to debate. None of us really know what will happen, frankly). 

So, here we are having to navigate another obstacle that affects the price of things. For those who have been with us for a very long time, you know that I will do my best to find the value where the value lies. You know that I will be honest about prices needing to increase. But you also know that I will bring them down when they go down. 

For those who are new to this thing, I consider every one of you like a member of my family that I want to protect from the excesses of greed that can permeate the markets at times like this. So, I am with you. I feel the same anxiousness you do. We are in this together. And we will get through this together, as well, as we have done before.The proverbial waters may be a little choppy but we'll figure it out.

As far as what we have for this week, trucking companies were closed yesterday in observance of Easter Monday so nothing to speak of in the markets. We shall see as the week goes on.

We will definitely have Faroe Island salmon back in the mix. Hokkaido scallops. Butterflied rainbow trout and branzino. Chilean seabass and Black Cod fillets. heck, we have a ton of stuff to feed the belly and the soul. In more frustrating times,  I find that stimulation of the Vagus nerve through good food can be a good antidote to the negative energy. 

We have more smoked hot dogs from El Camino. More frozen lava cakes with Passionfruit from Good Good Chocolates. Those things, my lord...

And as always, I am still keeping my eyes peeled for something else coming our way. You never know..There are a few possibilities still to reveal themselves....

You see how much fun we can have? I feel it too...

Littleneck clams are the shellfish of the week....Pair with Settentatre Pasta Co's organic fresh spinach linguini for cheapest meal ever!!  Not sure about oysters yet ... We have labneh and smoked fish..So many good things..

Plenty of crab meat, shrimp, etc....

I know, I know..Lots of words...

Anyway, as usual, I have to thank all of you guys for being in our lives. What an incredible community we live in...

Robert Amar

Small World Seafood

Owner