A Seafood Company Committed to Sustainability
Sustainability is primarily the result of three overlapping characteristics: scalability, environmental balance, and diversity. Maintaining sustainable fisheries requires evaluation, protection and maintenance of these three characteristics with regard to harvesters, fisheries, and their shared environment. Otolith’s mission is to contribute to the culture of seafood and sell seafood produced and harvested by way of means and environments supporting the 3 pillars of sustainability. Otolith’s commitment to superior quality seafood supports our mission and protects the inherent value and quality of life benefits enjoyed within our community.
Protecting The Environment
One way Otolith protects our environment is by sourcing seafood harvested by low impact harvesters of a renewable seafood resource. Otolith’s salmon, shellfish and specialty seafood are all harvested in a protected marine area supporting commercial fishery access to only low impact harvesters while excluding one of the world’s most problematic fishing gear, trawling, often used to catch finfish, shellfish and pelagic species.
Line caught fish, expertly handled, produces superior quality seafood while limiting the environment’s exposure to collateral damage. Otolith sources six species of wild line caught fish: halibut, sablefish, rockfish, lingcod, coho salmon and king salmon. Otolith sources wild sockeye salmon harvested using gillnet gear, a surface water fishing style in use since ancient times and employed in near shore areas for efficient harvests of specific schools of targeted species.
The crab and spot prawns sourced by Otolith are harvested using pots or trap gear set on the ocean floor which allow smaller juvenile species to escape harvesting only mature larger target species.
Most of Otolith’s sustainable seafood is sourced from Alaska. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is the world’s leading successful fishery organization, responsible for the management of all directed fisheries’ species within the protected area of Southeast Alaska’s archipelago and all fisheries within Alaska’s 3-mile coastal limits.
Furthermore, the Department is responsible for other directed fisheries throughout the United States’ Exclusive Economic Zone in Alaska, comprised of waters within 200-miles from Alaska’s coasts.
Specialty Seafood
In addition to fillet cut sushi-grade portions, Otolith has a selection of boneless smoked salmon strips, cold smoked sablefish, ikura salmon roe caviar, and seasonally available choice cut line caught halibut cheeks.
Like all of Otolith’s superior seafood, our specialty seafood is prepared at the port of their landing and minimally processed to preserve the natural superior quality of their ingredients. Otolith’s smoked fish contains only salt, natural white cedar and alder wood smoke and sometimes small amount of sugar to assure glazing protects its juicy texture while being slowly smoked to perfection.