Since it’s Earth Week, I want to celebrate the fact that as a member of Wild Alaskan Company, you’re a net positive force toward building a more sustainable food system.
With each WAC box, you’re helping to protect the seas for generations to come by supporting the most sustainable fisheries on the planet. As a member, you’re actively participating in our mission to live in concert with nature, in a way that protects wild fish populations — as well as the web of flora and fauna that relies upon them to survive.
That’s right, the fate of salmon is tied to the fate of flora!
You probably knew that salmon is great bear food, but did you know that salmon is also a great nutrient for trees? As a part of its natural lifecycle, each salmon that makes it upriver to spawn eventually must die. Nature’s ledger is so poetically balanced that each salmon carcass decomposes into nutrients that enrich the waters that feed the roots of the trees drinking from these riverbeds.
Farmed salmon aquaculture, in contrast, can have a significant, negative impact on wild nature, including on wild fish populations. I won’t spend time here writing about the sustainability impact of farmed salmon versus wild salmon, because we have an entire WAC blog post that covers the topic of wild versus farmed salmon from an ecological perspective.
Alternatively, as a crash course on all things wild versus farmed salmon — including the health impact of each — I invite you to visit WAC’s Instagram or Facebook pages this week to catch a recent series of short videos that we published, covering some of the more notable highlights from these wild vs farmed posts.
I know that it’s easy to reflect on the negative impact that human activities have on the planet, but I truly believe that when we live in concert with nature, we have just as much power to have a positive impact on the world around us. The challenges are manifold — even when simply trying to decide what to cook for dinner — but when we’re intentional about what we give and take from the planet, I know we can move, collectively, in a positive direction.
P.S. Next week I’m officially back to my usual WAC routine. Stay tuned for a Kallenberg family update, which may or may not include a snapshot of a very cute baby that has been keeping me extra busy in 2023!
Happy Earth Day (tomorrow and always!) and Live Wild,
Monica
Pictured above: A springtime view of Planet Earth from a sweet little spot on Cooper Landing in Alaska, the magical land where the seas meet the trees.
