You can now buy cannabis-salmon in Canada

Salmon, which has helped grow cannabis, is sold in markets and restaurants in the Okanagan Valley. Kelowna-based producer Habitat Craft Cannabis Ltd. has started to sell the certified organic cho salmon, which has fertilized its cake and caviar, which are also organic. Since November the salmon has been sold at fishermen's markets in Kelowna and Kamloops, and ordered from Jack Sam's restaurant at Quaaout Lodge. The 4/20 friendly fish sells at Askew's in Salmon Arm, the company's youngest retail customer, for around $ 45 a kilogram. Habitat has been a leader in the Canadian aquaponic cannabis sector since it received its first organic aquaculture certification for both weed and Coho salmon from the Canadian General Standards Board in December 2019. In September 2019, the company received the license to micro-grow cannabis and last year the license to produce fish for commercial sale. Habitat experts, including UBC aquaculture professor Justin Henry, suggested the Coho salmon for its availability, being native to the region, and for its optimal nutritional profile for growing cannabis plants. "It is an economic, environmental and social advantage for us to use it," said CFO Kayla Mann in a telephone interview. She says that her company has received positive feedback from returning customers in the local markets where the fish is sold and that the next step is to expand her business on a larger scale and put her fish for commercial sale across the world Expel province. Your team worked really hard on the taste and made sure the quality of the salmon was top notch - even to the point where it came at a financial loss, explains Mann. For micro-producers, the cost advantage is small, which is why she says Habitat is looking for ways to grow its business.