Unique Partnership Brings Fresh Food to Klemtu

Klemtu is a tiny community on a remote island more than 800 km northwest of Vancouver and, for years, its roughly 400 residents could count on two things to be as regular as the rain that falls there: the weekly arrival, by ferry, of an empty refrigerated trailer, later to be returned full of locally farmed fish for processing; and the somewhat less regular arrival of a truck stocked with fresh food and groceries.

While the former supported an important source of employment and income for members of the Kitasoo Xai’xais Nation, the timing and frequency of the latter meant residents had limited access to fresh produce for most of each month.

That changed last year thanks to a unique partnership between the Kitasoo Xai’xais, BC Ferries, the transport company Aquatrans Distributors Inc. and Mowi Canada West, with which Kitasoo Seafoods works to produce salmon products... Read More.