Authentic Indigenous Seafood
Authentic Indigenous Seafood is a co-op of sustainable Indigenous fisheries across Canada, featuring small to medium-sized enterprises that are guided by traditional principles of ecological sustainability. Our sustainable seafood products are always accurately labeled and fully traceable to their harvest sites. Additionally, our commitment to every customer is that all our products come with a unique QR code, providing insight into where their seafood came from and what makes each Indigenous fishery special.
As a co-op, the fisheries own the company, and profits are shared among the communities. By enjoying our seafood, you are directly supporting these communities while promoting sustainable seafood harvest, and that’s what makes us Authentic Indigenous Seafood.
Authentic Indigenous Seafood’s products
All our fisheries are 100% Indigenous owned
and are small to medium-scale enterprises
based in Canada.
Learn about our unique Indigenous fisheries’ heritage:
Gitanyow Fisheries
Gitanyow Fisheries
Gitanyow’s mission is to provide high-quality salmon products from sustainable community-run fisheries and to reinvest proceeds into local salmon stewardship. At the fishery, we observed community dipnet fishers carefully selecting the best fish, dipping into the clear river water — just as they have for millennia.
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Pangnirtung Fisheries
Pangnirtung Fisheries
After a 90-minute snowmobile journey across sea ice in -20°C polar winds, Pangnirtung fishers reach the rich fishing grounds of Nunavut’s Cumberland Sound. During peak seasons, they sleep in portable shelters to tend their lines around the clock. Each hand-baited line, holding about 100 hooks, is threaded through 2 meters of ice, and lowered to the seafloor, about 1 kilometer deep. These lines target deep-water flatfish, renowned for their high oil content.
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Tsu-ma-uss Seafoods
Tsu-ma-uss Seafoods
The word Tsu-ma-uss comes from a Nuu-chah-nulth word meaning “washing”, but we know it from the Tsu-ma-uss Seafoods brand owned by Tseshaht and Hupacasath from Port Alberni and Barkley Sound, and the local Somass River name that is derived from it.
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Talok Fisheries
Talok Fisheries
This modern fishery reflects progress toward reconciliation for actions taken by the Canadian government in the early 1900s when they removed the original Lake Babine Nation’s weirs in exchange for nets and other services. The loss of these weirs led to starvation and a violent confrontation in 1906. Today, compromises have evolved into a shared fishery that restores food, cultural, and economic security.
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Seafoam Seafoods
Seafoam Seafoods
Seafoam Seafoods is the brand name of Pacheedaht Fishing Corporation Inc. Pacheedaht’s traditional and ancestral homelands are adjacent to Port Renfrew and sheltered inside the inlet of Port San Juan on the southwest corner of British Columbia’s Vancouver Island. The Pacheedaht-operated processing plant and smokery is located at the shoreward end of the community wharf adjacent to the southern gateway to British Columbia’s 75-kilometres West Coast Trail.
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Tsimshian Seafood
Coast Tsimshian Seafood
Coast Tsimshian Seafood is located on the remote northwest coast of British Columbia at the end of what was once called the Forgotten Road. Our community-owned Federally-certified fish processing plant is the first and only locally run plant of its kind in British Columbia. Our company is the biggest employer in Lax Kw’alaams and has played a major role in supporting the fishing industry of BC’s northern waters.
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