Wenner’s Sockeye Express

Business Member Since:  2023

Located: Moorhead, MN

Industry: Commercial Fishing

Website: www.sockeyeexpress.com

Facebook: Sockeye Express

Business Member Bio:

Conservation is at the very corner of Sockeye Express. We sell Wild-Caught Sockeye Salmon, salmon we harvest from Alaska's Bristol Bay. Our salmon rely on the pristine nature of the region's watersheds, both as smolts and as spawning adults. This incredible ecosystem sustains the salmon that sustain our business, therefore conserving this wild place is at the heart of all Bristol Bay fishers.


Over the last 15 years or so there has been a contentious fight over Pebble Mine, which would place the world's largest open pit mine directly in the watershed that feeds Bristol Bay. We do not believe a massive open pit mine can safely operate in the region without substantially damaging the fishery and ecosystem as a whole.

Thanks to work by groups such as Trout Unlimited and The Nature Conservancy, the brakes have been put on the project and the world's largest salmon run conserved for generations to come. But we know that the fight isn't over. So supporting the conservation of Bristol Bay and conservation as a whole will continue to be a central tenant of the culture here at Sockeye Express.

Conservation Work Supported:

  • Cornell Lab

  • Ducks Unlimited

  • The Nature Conservancy

  • Pheasants Forever

  • Trout Unlimited

  • MN DNR Catfish Working Group