Why Wild?

Why opt for wild-caught salmon instead of farm-raised salmon? Every year, Bristol Bay, Alaska, is home to the world's largest run of wild Sockeye Salmon, and this catch is worth it's weight in gold in many ways! With this exceptional resource available right in America's backyard, it makes for a wise choice for any meal of the day! Our goal at Salty Horizons Seafood Company is to keep people informed on what they are eating when it comes to Salmon, and to provide quality, nutritious and delicious Salmon for families all over the Low Country!

For centuries salmon have thrived in their natural habitats, the greatest being Bristol Bay, Alaska. Commercially caught wild Salmon marks the pages of Alaska's history as the beginning of it's industrial transition into the 1900's.

In the late 1870's, after Russia's sale of Alaska to the U.S, the first Salmon canneries were established in the

Southeast region for processing, canning, and distribution of this incredible resource. Resident's and prospectors

saw the great potential of the super fish combined with the canning preservation method, and the first booming industry of Alaska as an American state was born.

It wasn't long before wild caught Salmon was available for shipment to not only the country, but the globe.

While the growing appreciation of this rich fish of the final frontier came with it's economic booms, it's popularity over time began to become tainted by consumerism, and the people's preferences became skewed from quality to quantity and availability. The more we want, the more we get. Or is it the more we get, the more we want? Seafood consumption in the U.S has maintained and steadily increases each year, with Salmon consistently topping the charts at #2 seafood eaten in American homes. Because the benefits of Wild Salmon have been well known and utilized for centuries, the shift from the U.S sourcing frozen and canned Salmon domestically to importing and eating farm raised Salmon, grew with the fish's popularity.

In the mid 20th century, the first industrial Salmon farms began to appear in places like Chile and Norway. Though fishing methods like aquaculture have been around for thousands of years, industrial farmed fishing facilities were created in attempt to emulate the life of Salmon from beginning to end in order to capitalize on the insatiable demand of the consumers, as well as their lack of knowledge on the conditions of the caged swimmers they are paying to eat. Farmed salmon.