Salmon Bidding Platform

River Select Fisheries Cooperative is introducing an in-season bidding platform for qualifying salmon fisheries. The platform was developed by the Coop to provide a third-party cash buying forum for commercial fishing enterprises and their fishers to sell, cash flow, and exchange cash for local salmon harvests that are destined to commodity markets.

The forum is open to licensed fishing enterprises and brokers who wish to bid on their harvest of salmon coming from small commercial salmon fishing enterprises around BC.

The goal of the service is to create transparency in transactions, fairness and uniform standards for bidding activities, and keep distance between the buyer and the local fishing enterprise doing business in order to reduce conflict between buyers and local stakeholders living within fishing communities.

The Coop is also committed to quality and traceability. We provide logistics between landing sites to ensure the highest standards of handling, and protect production traceability by maintaining a trail of control documents between the fishery and the market place.