Meet your Fishermen

Wild salmon has played a significant cultural and economic role in west coast communities throughout British Columbia for as long as humans have lived there. For generations, men and women have fished for wild salmon and worked as processors and retailers. It's not uncommon for today's fishermen to be third or fourth-generation wild BC salmon fishermen.

Presently, the wild BC salmon industry employs about 6,600+ people comprised of approx. 4,000+ fishermen and crew, provides approximately 2,600 positions in the salmon processing sector in BC, and creates additional jobs in related and necessary fields such as cold storage, shipping, etc.