100% Natural and Locally Produced Just for You

About Wild Coast Salmon

Established in 2016, Wild Coast Salmon is Africa’s first, organic style, sustainable, Atlantic salmon farm. By producing and farming salmon locally right here in RSA, we will be able to provide Southern Africa with superior quality fresh salmon that contributes to local jobs, social benefits, community upliftment, environmental footprint reduction, hugely reduced carbon emissions and a brand that is Proudly South African.

Wild Coast Salmon can deliver the finest superior fresh salmon in a matter of hours of harvesting the fish, compared to imported long distance airfreighted salmon from the Northern Hemisphere (BUT, is exactly the same species as our salmon) and which is many days old by the time it is able to be consumed.

Remember “local is lekker” and FRESH seafood is delicious and very healthy.

Our production tanks are situated on land in a closed bio secure sterile environment to prevent any contaminations and diseases.

Our fish welfare comes first.
Recirculating aquaculture systems are becoming a more popular way of production farming salmon and are in fact a modern sustainable alternative to farming salmon in open sea water cages with no control over the biology or the environment.

As a result of these production methods at Wild Coast Salmon, we use no chemicals, hormones or vaccines or any form of medication in the growing and production process. This provides our customers with a healthy, nutritious organic style product while also protecting the environment.

Produced Locally

The Wild Coast is one of the most remote sections of the Eastern Cape coast and stretches over 600 kilometres from East London, in the south, to the border of Kwa Zulu Natal province (KZN), in the north. It is the traditional home of the rich and vibrant Xhosa culture.

The Wild Coast is known for its pristine ocean waters, beautiful coastal scenery, indigenous forests and many rivers that empty into the sea.

"Today the area is far more peaceful, but still somewhat lost in time. It’s a place where hippies, surfers and rural communities live side by side, with little in the way of possessions and much in the way of hospitality and friendliness." - Brand South Africa

Farmed
Sustainably

Aquaculture is the most resource-efficient ways of farming protein, this can be seen in the carbon footprint left behind by farming. A carbon footprint measures the total CO emissions caused by direct and indirect production of a product. As seen in the image below, salmon farming is almost 10 times more efficient than farming beef. This carbon footprint is measured in kilograms carbon monoxide per kilogram edible part of the product.

Source: Global Salmon Initiative (globalsalmoninitiative.org/en/sustainability-report/protein-production-facts/)

At Wild Coast Salmon we use no chemicals, vaccines or hormones while breeding/growing salmon. Natural, pristine, clean water and bio-secure systems, built on land, simulates the natural Nordic environment and ultimate conditions for our fish welfare.

We maintain full traceability through the entire production and growing process, “from egg to plate ™”, enabling us to feed you with an organic style salmon - fresh, vibrant and healthy.

We are proud to be part of the “The Promise of the Blue Revolution”. With aquaculture, we can maintain living standards while averting the ruin of the oceans.

Salmon Life Cycle

The Atlantic salmon is an anadromous species of cold water fish, that is, it spawns in freshwater streams, the young salmon remain in fresh water for 2 or 3 years while they grow and then the adults return to sea.

Atlantic salmon culture began in the 19th century in the UK in freshwater as a means of stocking waters with parr (young salmon) in order to enhance wild returns for anglers. Sea cage culture for growing fish, in what is now called aquaculture, was first used in the 1960s in Norway to raise Atlantic salmon to marketable size. Recirculating aquaculture systems make it possible to farm salmon entirely on land, replicating the natural wild environment and which is an ongoing initiative in the industry.

The salmon go from egg, to an alevin, fry, parr, smolt, and finally the adult phase where they weigh between 3.5 to 5.5kg. To read more about each phase of the salmon life cycle, click the button below.