| Quebec’s first urban fish farm set to make a splash in Montreal with Arctic char | |
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Bringing fresh exotic fish from the farm to the plate, all in the same day and all raised right here in Montreal — that is the goal of upstart company Opercule, Quebec’s first urban fish farm.
Situated in the Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough, in the basement of an Urban Agriculture Coop building, are some 50,000 small Arctic char, swimming around and slowly growing in size. |
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“It’s going to be a real ‘catch of the day.’ The fish will be alive in the morning and delivered in the evening,” said co-founder Nicolas Paquin.
“We both had a passion for fish and wanted to do something new with our lives,” Paquin said.
Both founders previously had no experience in fish farming.
Paquin was a construction engineer and Dupaul-Chicoine was a musician. |
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