Sourcing & Traceability
Every fish, tied to the boat it came off.
Traceability isn't a marketing line for us — it's the operational backbone of a licensed first-receiver business. Here's how the chain works.
The chain, at a glance
Boat → landing → lot → cold chain → buyer.
Landing
Vessels off-load directly at our receiving station. Arrival time, vessel identifier, and licence details are logged on the dock.
Verified catch
Species and weights are recorded on calibrated scales against the vessel's landing declaration. Temperature is checked and logged.
Lot creation
A unique lot number is generated linking catch to vessel, fishery area, gear type, and receipt date — the anchor for traceability.
Buyer delivery
Lots move to wholesale buyers on the same or next day, with lot-level documentation on every invoice.
Where we work
A working footprint along the BC coast.
We receive commercial landings across British Columbia — from the North Coast down to the Strait of Georgia. Our logistics network moves lots from remote landing sites into central cold storage and out to wholesale buyers.
The map is illustrative — a working footprint of the ports and regions we actively receive from. Specific facility and dock locations are shared with contracted harvesters and buyers.
First Receiver
What "first receiver" actually means.
A first receiver is the initial licensed buyer of commercial catch, taking possession directly from harvesters. In British Columbia, first receivers operate under DFO and provincial requirements that govern licensing, record-keeping, and reporting.
As the first point of custody after the vessel, we carry the responsibility of getting the initial record right — species, quantity, area, and vessel. Everything downstream — settlements, inventory, buyer invoices — is built on that foundation.
We take that responsibility seriously, and we've designed our operation so no landing is received without being fully documented.
Seasonality
A year of BC landings.
Every commercial fishery has its own window. Here's when the species we handle typically land through our receiving operation.
Dungeness Crab
Shellfish
Spot Prawns
Shellfish
Wild Pacific Salmon
Finfish
Pacific Halibut
Groundfish
Sablefish (Black Cod)
Groundfish
Geoduck
Bivalve
Pacific Oysters
Bivalve
Lingcod
Groundfish
Rockfish
Groundfish
Peak commercial availability shown. Exact openings are set by DFO / IPHC and vary year to year.
Records held, records shared.
Landing records, lot documentation, and cold-chain data are retained in accordance with regulatory requirements and made available on request to auditors, harvesters (their own landings), and wholesale buyers (their own purchases).