Started on the dock, still on the dock
The counter opened in a converted net shed at the end of the pier, close enough to the boats that the buyer used to walk the catch over by hand. The shed is bigger now, but the buyer still meets the boats every morning before the counter opens.
There is no freezer case at the front of the store on purpose. What is frozen stays in back for the smoker and the chowder pot, so the case up front is only ever what came in that day.
Five people work the counter, and three of them have been buying fish off the same boats for more than a decade.
