Seafood festival

Seafood festivals are starting their comeback but the pandemic is persistent. Check our calendar often for cancellations.

The Grant Seafood Festival is put on by community volunteers and has been held every year since 1966 in this riverside enclave between Melbourne and Sebastian.

As the first “cool” fronts roll into Florida in mid-October, the stone crab harvest gets underway, and so do the celebrations as stone crab festivals.

Last updated on June 14th, 2021 at 12:58 pmIt’s only fitting that the oldest seafood festival in Florida calls Apalachicola its home. Folks have been fishing here since the early 1800s, although at the time, the town was established primarily as a shipping port for cotton. As railroads replaced ships for the transit of cotton, …