Murdock's Fresh Fish and Seafood

Murdock’s Fresh Fish and Seafood is a long-running retail seafood market at 4610 Prospect Ave in the Ivanhoe Southeast neighborhood on Kansas City’s East Side — a Prospect-corridor fixture that has sold fresh fish, fillets, and fish-fry groceries to the surrounding community for more than 20 years.

Description

Murdock’s Fresh Fish and Seafood is a neighborhood retail seafood market on Prospect Avenue in the Ivanhoe Southeast neighborhood of Kansas City’s East Side. The counter sells a wide variety of fresh fish, fish fillets, whole seafood, and a full complement of fish-fry supplies and groceries — the kind of everyday fresh-seafood source that anchors a residential corridor. It has served the surrounding Prospect-corridor community for more than 20 years. The business also appears in listings under the name Murdock’s Quality Seafood Retail.

Ownership and history

Murdock’s has operated on the Prospect corridor for over 20 years, per the business’s own description.¹ The Better Business Bureau profile lists Dan Bock as owner, with the business started 5/1/1991 and incorporated 12/28/1993 — placing Murdock’s on the East Side for roughly three decades.² The market is an independent local operation, not part of any chain. The origin of the “Murdock’s” name is not yet documented in a first-party source.

Menu

Last verified: 2026-07-24 · Source: Official website product pages (Our Products / Fish / Seafood / Specialty Items / Grocery)³ · URL(s): https://murdocksseafood.com/our-products · https://murdocksseafood.com/fish · https://murdocksseafood.com/seafood · https://murdocksseafood.com/specialty-items · https://murdocksseafood.com/grocery · Confidence: High for product range (full official capture); the official site publishes no prices — counter pricing

Retail market, not a sit-down restaurant — the “menu” is the fresh counter and grocery range. All items below are transcribed from the official site’s product pages.³

Fish fillets

Sole · Swai/Basa · Tilapia · Walleye · Whiting · Blue Gill · Cod · Orange Roughy · Perch · Red Snapper · Salmon — prices³

Catfish

Fresh USA farm-raised catfish from Mississippi, trucked in twice per week; cut to order — whole fish, fillets, nuggets — prices³

Buffalo

Brought in fresh from local Kansas and Missouri lakes; cut to order — whole fish, half fish, scored fillets, steaks — prices³

Other fresh varieties (availability-dependent)

Blue Gill · Gar · White Perch — prices³

Shrimp

Cooked · cooked and peeled · breaded · raw peeled · EZ peel. Premium wild-caught USA Gulf shrimp in medium, large, jumbo, and colossal; any quantity from the counter, with discounted five-pound frozen boxes — prices³

Crab, lobster, and shellfish

• Crab legs — snow crab, king crab; crab meat for crab cakes — prices³
• Lobster tails — small and large — prices³
• Crawdads — whole cooked and tail — prices³
• Scallops — U-20 jumbo sea scallops — prices³
• Mussels — whole frozen — prices³

Specialty and hard-to-find items

Alligator meat · frog legs · rabbit · smelts · Louisiana Swamp Man boudin links · chicken wings; special orders possible by phone — prices³

Grocery and fish-fry

Mad Jacks Fish Fry · Louisiana Fish Fry · seasonings and sauces · Zatarain’s shrimp and crab boil · hush puppies · frozen corn-on-the-cob · Zatarain’s rice mixes — prices³

Hours (official site, contact page): Mon–Sat 10:00 AM–6:00 PM; Sun closed.³

Links

• Official site: https://murdocksseafood.com/

Sources

Footnotes

1. murdocksseafood.com — official site — https://murdocksseafood.com/ — asserts: 4610 Prospect Ave, Kansas City, MO 64130; phone (816) 861-1600; “for over 20 years” serving the neighborhood; sells fresh fish, fillets, seafood, full complement of fish fries and groceries. ↩

2. Better Business Bureau — Murdocks Seafood business profile, Kansas City, MO — https://www.bbb.org/us/mo/kansas-city/profile/seafood-retail/murdocks-seafood-0714-99151087 — accessed 2026-07-16. Confirms: owner “Dan Bock, Owner”; “Business Started: 5/1/1991”; “Business Incorporated: 12/28/1993”; address 4610 Prospect Ave, Kansas City, MO 64130-1957; phone (816) 861-1600; BBB accredited since 10/23/2009 (independent local seafood retailer). ↩

3. murdocksseafood.com — official site product pages: Our Products (https://murdocksseafood.com/our-products), Fish (/fish), Seafood (/seafood), Specialty Items (/specialty-items), Grocery (/grocery), Contact (/contact) — accessed 2026-07-24. Asserts: full product range as transcribed above (fillet varieties; twice-weekly Mississippi farm-raised catfish; local KS/MO-lake buffalo; Gulf shrimp grades; crab/lobster/crawdad/scallop/mussel stock; alligator, frog legs, rabbit, smelts, boudin; fish-fry grocery brands); business hours Mon–Sat 10 AM–6 PM, Sun closed; no prices published. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³ ↩¹⁴ ↩¹⁵