Wild Caught Salmon

Sustainable and wild caught salmon are often confused with organic salmon -a standard occasionally used for farm raised fish. Sustainable fishing means that harvesting is limited, ensuring a healthy wild salmon population long into the future. Wild salmon are not certified organic because they roam our oceans in search of plankton and krill, and are not subject to a long list of artificial foods or color pigments used by fish farms. If you remain unconvinced as to the merits of wild caught salmon, check out www.whywild.org.

..."reef nets stand out as the original and still the best in selective fishing." 
-Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife

"Minimal handling and stress coupled with the ability to keep the fish alive make reef nets the most selective fishing gear available."
-Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife

Protecting Wild Salmon Stocks

Reefnetting has less than ½ % by-catch mortality, meaning for every 200 non-targeted or protected wild salmon we catch and release, one will die. No other fishery approaches such a sustainable level. This is because reefnet wild caught salmon are caught alive, not gilled or crushed as they are pulled up in a net. After a successful catch, reefnet salmon are gently rolled into a netted live well, having been out of the water for only seconds. This gives us an extremely high success rate for releasing king salmon and other non-targeted species unharmed. Although for some fisheries the king salmon is a highly prized catch, for us the reward is seeing them swim away.

Solar Powered

In 2007 we launched our pilot solar powered reefnet boat, making Lummi Island Wild the first solar powered wild salmon fishery in the world! The solar upgrade was made possible by a partnership with Alpha Energy. Alpha has saved us from carrying thousands of pound of batteries up the beach, and helped distinguish Lummi Island Wild as the model for sustainable salmon fishing. Healthy, sustainable, wild, and solar powered!