Sustainable Fishery and Traditional Fish Products

Small scale, wild caught, sustainable East Arm fish….

We specialize in small scale sustainable fishery practices, & the production of traditional dried products: whitefish & lake trout dryfish, fish chips, & dryfish pemmican. We also produce candied lake trout & coney, & cold smoked lake trout & coney, as well as pike & whitefish caviar seasonally. Our fishing practices are not only small scale, but we choose to avoid the use of ice augers & motorized equipment in favour of ice chisels, arm power, & dog teams in the Winter, & good old fashioned paddle power in the Summer. All products are dried &/or smoked in our log built smokehouse, fuelled by sustainably harvested standing deadwood.

The waters of Great Slave Lake are known as some of the cleanest & most pristine in Canada… & the East Arm of the Lake is known internationally for the sweetest water & best quality fish in the Lake, with larger fish, firmer flesh, & absolutely beautiful flavour. Species include lake trout, whitefish, coney (inconnu), northern pike, burbot, & the occasional pickerel & grayling. As far as we know, we are crrently the most remote commercial fishers around the Lake. We do our best to practice Land & Water stewardship with respect to those who came before us, & on whose Land we are welcomed as guests. We believe in creating affordable, traditional, staple foods that everyone can access. While making a humble living from fishing, we provide for the bulk of our needs self sufficiently, through subsistence gardening, fishing, & hunting. The sale of fish covers “flour, coffee, dairy, & chocolate” we like to joke, & we do our best to enjoy these “luxury” foods in a moderate way. It also helps with repairs to infrastructure like skidoos & small craft that make it possible to live at such a remote location, accessible only by ice or water routes.

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