Katfish Salmon Co.

Port Townsend, WA

Email: katfishsalmonco@gmail.com
Website: katfishsalmonco.com

Health
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- Katfish Salmon Co.
- Port Townsend, WA

About Us

Katfish Salmon Co. provides Pacific Northwest Communities with high quality, traceable seafood direct, from the fisherman to the consumer.

Kat Murphy is the owner of Katfish Salmon Co. and the owner/operator of the F/V Grace. She spends her summer months fishing for salmon in Southeast Alaska utilizing a traditional hook and line method that allows her to catch fish one-at-a-time, ensuring sustainability and quality. In the off-season when not fishing, she sells her catch and other fish she's sourced from small boat fishermen throughout the Pacific Northwest Region. In 2018 she started Katfish Salmon Co, with the goal of providing Pacific Northwest Communities with high quality, traceable seafood direct, from the fisherman to the consumer. This goal includes addressing barriers to food justice within her own community, both through her Fish Club Captain program, and by working with local SNAP Coordinators to develop wholesale contracts geared at getting high quality protein sources into local food banks.

Retail Info

Our Values

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Health
Eat Local First values local production of accessible, nourishing, and safe food. Businesses and organizations with the Health indicator contribute to community health by participating in food access and nutrition incentive programs and by producing food that is safe for people with specific dietary needs.
- Food Access & Nutrition Incentives
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Racial and Social Equity
Eat Local First values the inclusion and representation of historically underrepresented or marginalized groups in the food and farming industry. The owners of businesses and organizations with the Racial and Social Equity indicator have identified themselves as holding one or more marginalized identities.
- Woman Owned
  Owned by a person who identifies as a woman.

Wholesale Info

I am able to deliver product approximately once a month, end of October - May. Due to the nature of my business, I ask that businesses order as much volume as possible with each delivery. It is also helpful (but not required) to let me know in the spring the estimated volume of product the business will want for the fall (upcoming year) so that I am able to catch and source enough fish to keep everyone happy while I am gone fishing in the summer months.

I usually sell out of my products before I leave to go fishing in June, so most businesses that I work with place a big order in the fall.

Products available for wholesale

- Locally Raised, Harvested, Grown
  - Seafood
    - Halibut
    - Salmon
Additional Products
Sablefish

Sample Buyers

- Chimacum Corner Farmstand
- Hama Hama Farm Store
- Port Townsend Food Co-op
- Skagit Valley Food Co-op
- Longship Marine
- Bayview Farm & Gardens
- Finnriver Farm & Cidery
Interested in selling to: Hunger relief organizations

Ordering & Distribution

Minimum Requirements: No
Selling Season: February - May, October - December
Delivery Days: By Appointment

Delivery Area

Counties: Clallam, Jefferson, Kitsap

Additional Details

Sells "seconds" or cosmetically imperfect foods: No
Carries Liability Insurance: Yes

Last updated: 08/23/2024