Coastal Shellfish, a First Nations-owned company, cracked open the scallop market this week with the first commercial sales from its processing plant in Prince Rupert. The company has already been selling scallop larvae to shellfish farms around North America but now live, adult scallops are available in Prince Rupert. "It's been kind of a dream for coastal First Nations to establish an economy based on the ocean," Coastal Shellfish CEO Michael Uehara told the CBC's Carolina de Ryk. An ethos made all the more significant because the need for a shellfish industry in the city arose after over-fishing crushed the local salmon processing industry. Provan Crump (left), a shellfish expert and hatchery manager, recently relocated from Hawaii to help Indigenous nations on the north coast develop a new industry: Shellfish farming.

Source: CBC News February 24, 2019 16:52 UTC