Iliamna Fish Company is simply, almost quaintly, dedicated to providing the world's best wild salmon. In a domestic market starved for premium wild sockeye salmon, we offer the finest available. We fish completely by-hand, using small, 50 fathom nets. We fish out of 20 foot-long skiffs, small craft that preserve the quality of our fish, because our fish are not crushed under hundreds of tons of other fish, or roughly-harvested with industrial machinery. We carefully oversee the filleting and preparing of our fish for your table-we consider every fish a possible feast.

Our fishery is Marine Stewardship Council certified-we catch fish that feed and spawn in clean, cold, rich waters. Whenever possible, we buy locally and hire locally. Although we are pleased with international interest in our fish, we are particularly excited about introducing the US to its own richest salmon fishery, heretofore largely unknown.

We are devoted to fishing for a simple reason-we love fish. The hard work, the time with family, the salty air, and most importantly, the perfect, delicious beauty of wild, fresh fish. Because we are a third generation fishing family, we are an integral part of a community, an economy, and an environment that we are committed to maintaining.

Because we fish in shallow waters with short nets, we have an extraordinarily low by-catch of 0.06%. This six-hundredths of a percentage by-catch (calculated from our total salmon catch) consists of only starry flounder (platichthys stellatus), an incredibly hardy bottom feeder. There are, literally, no other fish to be caught in shallow water with set net-sized gillnets. Per boat, a 0.06% by-catch is approximately 16 flounders per season, 90% of which we return, alive, to the ocean.