Costa Rican Rex García Saxe flips over seven calendars to explain how he started his business Pesca Silvestre, a business that began with a passion for wild salmon from the cold waters of the North Pacific and that he distributes in the country, according to him, with a lot of hit . .

García told in the program Our voice this Friday that it was a friend of his who works in Costa Rica in the hotel and restaurant sector, who called him around 2015 to ask him about the possibility of procuring Canadian salmon to supply the kitchens of some hotels.

“I started to investigate and from there the idea of ​​trying to bring this salmon to Costa Rica and offer the Costa Rican public a new high quality product was born. This is how the story started and little by little we were moving forward,” García said.

Wild salmon, the fisherman explains, is sea-farmed salmon and has nothing to do with farmed salmon. “It’s a salmon that goes through its natural process from its birth upstream until it descends into the sea where it lives and then returns to the river to spawn. It’s a very interesting cycle,” said the Costa Rican, who lives in British Columbia, the westernmost province of Canada.

Due to the conditions under which it is fished, this product does not contain any type of antibiotic or pesticide. It is also not fed fish food which usually contains synthetic dyes. “It’s the organic option for salmon”, underlines this entrepreneur.

The product distributed in the country is pink salmon, which is processed, frozen and shipped directly from the Vancouver post, giving consumers a premium option for a product that is in high demand in the country.

Its origin influences the flavor and both, according to Rex García, are the ideal complement to satisfy the most demanding palates of this type of fish.

“This salmon makes the difference because it is a quality product that does not have the characteristics brought by farmed salmon, which is fatty salmon; then the flavor of wild salmon is something else, it is something spectacular and very delicious It’s fat content is lower than that of farmed salmon and the one we distribute in Costa Rica (pink) is one of the five most peculiar species of salmon from the northern Pacific of Canada. It can be eaten raw or cooked. It is a salmon that cooks quickly,” he explained.

In Costa Rica, the product can be obtained through the telephone number 7295-0123 or by entering the page pescasilvestre.com.

Together with his partner in Costa Rica, this entrepreneur is already talking about diversifying the offer of products marketed with the Wild Fishing seal, incorporating other options from the sea, including wild blackberries, wild mushrooms and forest truffles.

“We had a very wide acceptance in various sectors. People loved the salmon,” the Costa Rican said.

It is precisely because of this acceptance and the positive evaluations they have received for this fish, that this entrepreneur who loves “food for lovers, without hormones, without antibiotics and without preservatives, plans to expand the catalog of this they offer, always with gourmet products.

The Costa Rican clarified that the fishing of this salmon is carried out according to the guidelines established by the Canadian authorities for this practice.

“Because it’s a wild product, it’s not that there are large quantities. Also, here there is a strict control of the quantities that can be taken during specific months, specific harvests according to the license that is granted to certain boats so that there is no overfishing of all species. It is very regulated,” said the Costa Rican, who called his business a “great adventure.”