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Salmon

We have a wide variety of salmon products to choose from. While specific offerings can vary, our mainstay products are flash-frozen, boneless, skin-on fillets and portions, all in sizes between 1 lb and ½ lb each. We also carry hot-smoked and cold-smoked salmon and various canned salmon products.

Salmon is caught between June and October on the BC coast, but we aim to keep it in stock year-round. The gear methods used by our salmon fishers are either gillnet or trolling.

Click here to see when we'll be fishing for salmon this year!

pricing

We buy directly from our fishers, which allows us to offer our members competitive prices while paying our fishers fair wages. The current prices for 2025 are shown here, and can fluctuate throughout the year. The lower prices are the Metro Vancouver prices, with other provinces being marginally higher. The higher prices are for home delivery throughout Ontario.

product price
Sockeye salmon fillets $6-$8 per 100g
Chinook salmon fillets $9-$9 per 100g
Coho salmon fillets $5-$8 per 100g
Pink salmon fillets $3-$6 per 100g
Chum salmon fillets $3-$7 per 100g
Candied pink salmon strips $8-$11 per 100g
Maple sockeye nuggets $12-$15 per 100g
Peppered sockeye salmon $11-$13 per 100g
Sockeye salmon lox $12-$15 per 100g
Canned salmon $7-$14 per can

Our Fishermen

  • Shaun Strobel

    Shaun is our lead fisher and industry expert with a MA in the history and political economy of the BC fishing industry, and a lifetime of experience fishing the BC coast. Starting in 2023 both his sons, Oliver and Lyndon Storbel, now third generation fishers, joined him for commercial salmon openings! Oliver taking on a newly appointed deckhand position on the Eldorado.

    Boat

    Eldorado

    Gear

    Gillnetting

    Catch

    Sockeye & Chinook

    Location

    West coast of Vancouver Island, Barkley Sound & Alberni Inlet

    Shaun Strobel

    Shaun is our lead fisher and industry expert with a MA in the history and political economy of the BC fishing industry, and a lifetime of experience fishing the BC coast. Starting in 2023 both his sons, Oliver and Lyndon Storbel, now third generation fishers, joined him for commercial salmon openings! Oliver taking on a newly appointed deckhand position on the Eldorado.

  • Melanie Cranmer

    Melanie Cranmer, multi-generation c̓išaaʔatḥ (Tseshaht) First Nation fisher, fishes for sockeye salmon aboard her skiff in Alberni Inlet/Somass River. Melanie first learned to fish from her brothers, uncles, and cousins. She has now taught her children and fishes alongside them and her twin sister.

    Boat

    Skiff

    Gear

    Gillnetting

    Catch

    Sockeye

    Location

    Westcoast Vancouver Island, Alberni Inlet, Somass River

    Melanie Cranmer

    Melanie Cranmer, multi-generation c̓išaaʔatḥ (Tseshaht) First Nation fisher, fishes for sockeye salmon aboard her skiff in Alberni Inlet/Somass River. Melanie first learned to fish from her brothers, uncles, and cousins. She has now taught her children and fishes alongside them and her twin sister.

  • Doug Kostering

    Doug is a multi-generation ‘Namgis First Nation fisherman. Doug started fishing with his grandpa in the 1960’s and has continued ever since. His children join him as crew on some trips. Learn more about Doug and how he fishes halibut on our blog!

    Boat

    Paper Chase

    Gear

    Gillnet & Bottom longline

    Catch

    Salmon (sockeye, chinook, pink) & Halibut

    Location

    Most areas of the BC coast - West coast of Vancouver Island, Barkley Sound & Alberni Inlet; the waters around the north, northwest and northeast coasts of Vancouver Island; north coast of BC mainland

    Doug Kostering

    Doug is a multi-generation ‘Namgis First Nation fisherman. Doug started fishing with his grandpa in the 1960’s and has continued ever since. His children join him as crew on some trips. Learn more about Doug and how he fishes halibut on our blog!

  • Toan Thi La

    Toan is a third-generation fisher whose passion for fishing started when she was a child. Toan learned to fish from her dad, who owned and operated many fishing boats in Vietnam. When she moved to Canada 30 years ago, she brought her knowledge to a brand new fishery as a sockeye salmon fisher and has never looked back. Her vessel is named after her youngest child, and although none of her children fish with her, she often has the help of her husband, Hong, on board as her crew.

    Boat

    Brian N

    Gear

    Gillnetting

    Catch

    Sockeye

    Location

    West coast of Vancouver Island, Barkley Sound & Alberni Inlet

    Toan Thi La

    Toan is a third-generation fisher whose passion for fishing started when she was a child. Toan learned to fish from her dad, who owned and operated many fishing boats in Vietnam. When she moved to Canada 30 years ago, she brought her knowledge to a brand new fishery as a sockeye salmon fisher and has never looked back. Her vessel is named after her youngest child, and although none of her children fish with her, she often has the help of her husband, Hong, on board as her crew.

  • Francis van der Sande

    Francis is the first in his family to fish, and has kept at it for over 10 years now! He happened on the profession by chance, when visiting his aunt and happened to find work as a deckhand on the Ta-Nika one summer. Once he decided it was going stick went on to purchase that same boat. He resides in Saanich with his wife, Julia and their young family. Although his children are still a bit too young for the summer trips up the coast, he looks forward to teaching them and having them onboard future trips.

    Boat

    Ta-Nika

    Gear

    Trolling

    Catch

    Salmon (pink & coho) & rockfish

    Location

    North of Haida Gwaii

    Francis van der Sande

    Francis is the first in his family to fish, and has kept at it for over 10 years now! He happened on the profession by chance, when visiting his aunt and happened to find work as a deckhand on the Ta-Nika one summer. Once he decided it was going stick went on to purchase that same boat. He resides in Saanich with his wife, Julia and their young family. Although his children are still a bit too young for the summer trips up the coast, he looks forward to teaching them and having them onboard future trips.

Explore our favourite ways
to prepare seafood.

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Potato Galette with Smoked Sockeye Salmon

Cedar Plank Salmon

Creamy Tuscan Salmon Pasta

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