Snow Island is a Nova Scotia-based salmon producer distinguished by its commitment to the environment and sustainable farming practices for raising salmon from egg to plate. The company gives its salmon extra room to grow, maintaining a 98.5 percent volume of water to 1.5 percent of fish in its pens and nets. And while many other operations house one million-plus fish per farm, Snow Island farms contain only 500,000.
“We want to maintain a healthy environment for our fish. Sustainability is the basis for our decision-making,” says Bryan Bosien, marine operations manager at Snow Island. That commitment to the environment has led the company to adopt policies such as keeping farms 10 kilometers away from any wild salmon rivers, maintaining a distance of three kilometers between its farms and avoiding whale or bird migration routes when setting up pens.