Newport News Seafood Industrial Park

Newport News Seafood Industrial Park Is right off interstate 664 in Newport News Virginia. The harbor is very sheltered and access is straightforward to the open ocean, which is a few miles from the facility. Described as one of the busiest small ports in the USA east coast, the area does an astonishing amount of business. Sources claim that over 50 Trawlers are based out of the Seafood Industrial Park. Nearly all of the boats hold limited entry scallop permits or fish for finfish, primarily summer flounder. Several seafood packers and three ice houses support the fishing community there. Among them are Chesapeake Bay Packing, Inc., Old Point Packing Inc., Casey's Seafood Inc. B&C Seafood Inc. and Peabody LLC.

The port of Hampton Roads was the 6th richest port in the U.S for 2008 with over $72 million in landings. It is consistanly among the top 10 ports in the nation in total value of seafood, mostly due to the catches of scallops. The USA east coast scallop fishery shares the lead with the Northeast lobster fishery for the region's most seafood valuable resource.

The sea scallop fishery is the largest and most valuable wild scallop fishery in the world, and in 2007 was the most valuable single-species fishery in the United States. Recent landings have been worth about $400 million dock-side, with major landing ports at New Bedford, Mass., Cape May, N.J., and Hampton Roads, Va.

Images of the industrial part and commercial fishing fleet are can be seen in the Newport News Commercial Fishing Boat photo gallery.