Also closed is The Crab House on Route 25A in Great Neck, the Long Island outlet of a national seafood chain.

A unit of Darden Restaurants, Red Lobster is the biggest seafood chain in the country, with annual sales of $2.4 billion.

Weathervane Restaurant is a seafood chain in New England.

Four local retailers and a Virgin Superstore would move in along with five restaurants, including McDonald's and the popular French seafood chain Leon de Bruxelles.

Greene King, the regional brewer and pub company, is in talks to buy the seafood chain Loch Fyne Restaurants for around £70m.

The only raw Gulf Coast oysters that Red Lobster, the nation's largest seafood chain, will serve have been treated to kill bacteria.

A seafood chain, Long John Silver's has strong roots in the South, where it has been selling fried fish and battered shrimp for three decades.

Landry's, a Houston-based chain, has grown rapidly and plans to become the second-largest national seafood chain, after Red Lobster, which is owned by General Mills.

They cofounded it after leaving the La Peep steak and seafood chain in Colorado.

(Oh yeah, guess who else is at the top of the seafood chain?)