Tag Archives: Greenport LI
Jermaine Owens delivers North Fork seafood to your door, and now he has a restaurant, too
When Jermaine Owens was 12 years old, he remembers watching his father Thomas Reed, hard at work processing fresh fish at Cooper’s, a local retail fish store on Carpenter Street in Greenport. The young Owens would see the boats come in and dump their catch, and then watch as his father, a professional fish cutter, would apply his skill. In those early days, the seed of a vision was planted, one bloomed at an unlikely time — in the middle of a global pandemic. In February, Owens realized his dream of starting his own business, creating North Fork Seafood LLC, a full-service seafood company that sells fish to several commercial customers and restaurants and also offers home delivery for individuals and families. >click to read< 07:52
Fishermen continue to speak out against a fireboat being moved to the railroad dock in Greenport.
Greenport fisherman Sid Smith said on Wednesday that he’d heard the fireboat could be moving to the railroad dock sometime this week — something he’s been speaking out against for months. continued@northfolkpatch
