Fleming’s Seafood is a small sole trade/company and is operated by Gay and Freda Fleming. There are two strands to the business – Home deliveries of frozen fish and wholesale frozen prawn deliveries.

Background:
Gay has been involved in the fishing industry since finishing school in the late seventies. He started fishing from Spiddal with a currach and ended up in 1980 owning a trawler landing fish in Galway and Rossaveal.

He then moved into wholesale fresh fish operating from a small unit in Spiddal supplying fresh fish to shops and restaurants. In 1986, Gay and his wife Freda opened a shop in Dominick Street in Galway.

They had a very successful business for thirteen years – during which time they started a seafood delicatessen making fish pies, chowder, prawn cocktails and more. There was a huge demand for the chowder is still asked today. In 1999, the direction of the business changed to where it is today.

Gay and Freda acquired a small factory unit in Rossaveal and closed the shop in Galway.