Captain Jerry's is owned by
IncredibleFresh Seafood, a state of the art wholesale business located on Mercantile Avenue right here in Naples. You have probably seen our trucks throughout town, delivering to our finest hotels, country clubs and restaurants.

IncredibleFresh Seafood was established in 1989 and services Southwest Florida with the most diverse product line and finest seafood available anywhere. In 2005 IncredibleFresh Seafood merged with Swan River Wholesale of Naples to better serve the area and meet the ever changing demands of southwest Florida's outstanding Chefs. We are extremely proud to be the choice of the very best Chefs in the area and truly appreciate their confidence in us and their continued business.

"The American lobster (Homarus americanus) is today one of the more expensive food items on the market, owing to the difficulty of obtaining sufficient quantities to meet the demand. But when the first Europeans came to America, the lobster was one of the most commonly found crustaceans. They sometimes washed up on the beaches of Plymouth, Massachusetts, in piles of two feet high. These settlers approached the creatures with less than gastronomic enthusiasm, but the lobsters' abundance made them fit for the tables of the poor...In 1622 Governor William Bradford of the Plymouth Plantation apologized to a new arrival of settlers that the only dish he "could present their friends with was a lobster...without bread or anything else but a cup of fair water." Lobsters in those days grew to a tremendous size, sometimes forty or more pounds.

The taste for lobster developed rapidly in the nineteenth century, and commercial fisheries specializing in the crustacean were begun in Maine in the 1840s, thereby giving rise to the fame of the "Maine lobster," which was being shipped around the world a decade later. In 1842 the first lobster shipments reached Chicago, and Americans enjoyed them both at home and in the cities' new "lobster palaces," the first of which was built in New York by the Shanley brothers...Diamond Jim Brady thought nothing of downing a half-dozen in addition to several other full courses...By 1885 the American lobster industry was providing 130 million pounds of lobster per year. So afterward the population of the lobster beds decreased rapidly, and by 1918 only 33 million pounds were taken."
---Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink, John F. Mariani [Lebhar-Freidman:New York] 1999 (p. 186)