The Martha's Vineyard Shellfish Group, Island Grown Initiative and Net Result received a combined $714,000 to address food security and resiliency on the Island.
The iconic Vineyard Haven fish market has been sold, owner Louis Larsen confirmed. The buyer is Oak Bluffs businessman Mike Santoro. Only the business will change hands.
The popular Vineyard Haven fish market reopened in time for Easter weekend following a crash on April 5 that left the storefront in ruins and the market closed.
A weekend car crash left the popular fish market in ruins and closed to its customers this week. Recovery is taking longer than anticipated, but owner Louis Larsen remains optimistic.
Abraham Torres Rendon, 25, is facing charges of drunken driving, negligent operation of a motor vehicle, speeding and leaving the scene of property damage, among others, in connection with the incident that left the fish market in ruins.
Shellfish Markets Report Slow Sales
By James Kinsella
Gazette Senior Writer
The sale of local shellfish has sometimes slowed but hasn't stopped on Martha's Vineyard, which has become an Island of harvestable shellfish in a sea of toxic red tide.
Louis Larsen, owner of the Net Result in Vineyard Haven, which wholesales much of the Vineyard shellfish to local restaurants, estimates that overall Island demand for shellfish is off 50-60 per cent from normal mid-June levels.