Tightened metropolitan restaurants weren’t buying the normal volumes of seafood on what should have been one of the biggest weekends for Viking Village dock demand, Good Friday through Easter. But locals rallied with their own support, lining up to buy fish that was literally fresh off the boat.
On April 5, Lighthouse Marina had offered on Facebook that anyone could order and pick up tilefish for Wednesday, April 8, at the Sixth Street dock in Barnegat Light, as soon as the Frances Anne got back in from offshore with the catch.
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