Our Origins

A Seafood Company
First. Always.

Dockside Treats Co. grew out of something much older than the pet treat industry.

Marder Seafood has worked the New Bedford docks for decades — sourcing, processing, and delivering premium seafood at human-grade standards. That operation is the foundation everything here is built on.

The logic was straightforward: we had access to exceptional wild-caught seafood, the standards to handle it right, and a processing facility already held to human consumption requirements. What we didn't have was a reason to let high-quality product go underused.

Dockside Treats was the answer. Same sourcing standards. Same commitment to quality. A new purpose — and a new audience that just happens to have four legs.

Wholesale only, always — we never compete with the retailers we sell through.

30+
Years on the Docks
FDA
& BRCGS Certified Facility
0
Miles from the Processor
What We Stand For

The Standard
Doesn't Drop.

We Know What's In It

Marder Seafood processes our seafood directly. No layers between ocean and treat. When we say we know where it comes from, we mean it.

Human-Grade. Period.

Every treat starts as seafood held to human consumption standards. The bar doesn't change because the end consumer has a tail. If anything, we hold it higher.

Clean by Design

Limited ingredient, minimally processed, ingredients you can actually pronounce — that's not a trend for us, it's a reflection of how we operate. The label tells the whole story because there's nothing to hide.

Made in New Bedford

Processed and packaged in Massachusetts, in a facility built for the seafood industry. Not shipped in. Not outsourced. Made here, the way we make everything.

New Bedford, MA

Where It's
Always Been Real.

New Bedford has been a working port for centuries. It's not a backdrop — it's the reason Marder Seafood exists, and it's the reason Dockside Treats does too.

This city runs on the industry. The people who work the docks, the boats that go out, the facilities that process what comes back — that's not branding. That's the operation.

We make treats in the same city, at the same standard, with the same seriousness we apply to every pound of seafood we've ever sold.

"We process it ourselves, and we know exactly where it comes from."

Dog eating Dockside Cod Skins Treat
Certified & Compliant

Human-Grade
By Design.

Every Dockside treat is produced in an FDA-registered, BRCGS-certified facility that manufactures food for human consumption. That's not a claim we bolt on after the fact — it's the standard the whole facility runs on, for every product that leaves it.

Because the facility is built and certified for human food, our treats are naturally human-grade as a byproduct of how the building operates — not a separate process, not a marketing layer.

For buyers, that means a documented, auditable quality standard behind every case — the kind of traceability that's increasingly table stakes for pet, club, and grocery retail programs.


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