Skipper Otto

Once you become a member you have access to “the Dock,” our online seafood store. Simply log in, and choose a pick-up location and a pick-up date window that works for you. Order whatever seafood you like. Once your order is ready, we’ll remind you to visit our Community Partner pick-up location anytime over a few days to get your order.

At our home location at False Creek Fishermen’s Wharf in Vancouver, members also have the option to shop without a pre-order during our Thursday pick-ups between 3 -7 pm.

We primarily carry fillets and portion sizes that make meal prep easy. Most of our seafood is flash-frozen, which keeps it at peak quality and makes it convenient to always have on hand. The majority of our portion sizes are roughly 1 lb (454g) but we also carry a selection of member favourites in the ½ lb (227g) range. We also offer whole frozen salmon, various frozen shellfish options, smoked salmon varieties, and canned seafood (and kelp!) too. At our False Creek Fishermen’s Wharf location in Vancouver, we offer live mussels most of the year, as well as live oysters and live Dungeness crabs on occasion. Visit our products page for more details.

Our Community Partners pick-up locations are values-aligned stores who volunteer to distribute members’ orders. In Metro Vancouver, we have more than 35 locations across the Lower Mainland with pick-ups every week. We also have more than 60 Community Partners in towns and cities across the rest of Canada. When it is time to pick up your order, you have the flexibility to come into the store anytime over the course of several days during the store’s regular hours. You can find the location nearest to you and view the pick-up frequency schedule on our locations page.

Yes! We know it can be difficult to know how much seafood you’ll eat in a year, especially if this is your first season at Skipper Otto. 

This is why we make it easy for members to top up credit on their account. Having said that, we ask those who can right-size their shares to do so as soon as they join. We use membership funds to pay fishers on a timely basis and to plan how much seafood we will need. Our model just wouldn’t work if everyone simply paid as they go, but we like being able to offer flexibility to those who need it.