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SHORT HISTORY King Harbor's finest seafood market, Quality Seafood, Inc. has supplied the South Bay with the freshest seafood for over 40 years. It all began in 1897 when great grandfather Patar Dragich came to America from Yugoslavia He worked in the mines of Montanan and gained his citizen ship in one of the local’s bars, which is where they were being given for lack of a better place. He brought his eldest son Nick with him, and in 1913 sent for the rest of the family and moved to Seattle. There he began purse-seining out of a small skiff and was noted in the local journals as the father of the purse-seining (a form of fishing using nets) on the West Coast. His fishing brought him as far down south as San Pedro and eventually he fell in love with the South Bay, moving his family to San Pedro. His eldest son Nick took on the tradition of the family with his son Pete Dragich Sr. And decided to bring the freshest seafood from the boats to Redondo Beach. Before the redevelopment of the Redondo Beach King Harbor, the Dragich family owned and operated four seafood markets, Western Fish & Seafood, Quality Seafood, Western Smoked Fish and Weddington & McFarland. Combining and relocating the fish markets created one of the largest retail seafood markets on the West Coast, now known as Quality Seafood located on the lower lever of the Redondo Beach Pier.
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