The Pescheria is the daily heart of Chioggia, an open-sided market hall near the Ponte Vigo that opens before sunrise and starts to wind down around mid-morning. The boats unload directly onto the quay; the catch goes straight onto marble slabs inside the hall: enormous turbot and sole, mantis shrimp ('canocchie'), spider crabs, cuttlefish, sardines, octopus, and the local seasonal specialities like moeche (soft-shell crabs) and bianchetto whitebait.
Even if you are not buying, walk through. The market is a working spectacle, and the stallholders are happy to talk if you have a few words of Italian. Closed Sundays and Mondays. Some of the nearby restaurants buy directly from the stalls — the fresher seafood plates in town often come from a hundred metres away.