Welcome to local and sustainable seafood sourcing for Victoria and Vancouver Island. We serve Vancouver Island restaurants and grocers with a full range of the best our local waters have to offer, and are open 7 days/week (except Christmas and New Year’s Day) with same day delivery in Victoria for orders received before noon. We operate out of a brand new warehouse facility in central Victoria, but bring over 40 years of expertise and experience in the seafood industry, working our way from our fishing boats on the BC coast to our current businesses bringing the best of the ocean to both retail and wholesale customers. We look forward to working with you!

Fish (fresh or frozen changes with the seasons)

salmon, steelhead, char, halibut, sole, rockfish, cod, albacore

  • Master filleter François preparing salmon sides
  • Filleting Pacific halibut

Shellfish

local clams, local mussels (Salt Spring Island, Honey), many varieties of live west coast oysters plus shucked oyster meat, live Dungeness crab, Spot prawns (fresh in May & June), shrimp

In-house smoked products

hot smoked sockeye and chum, candied and maple salmon, salmon chorizo, smoked oysters and scallops, cold smoked salmon lox, cold smoked cod, cold smoked albacore loins 

  • Smoked lingcod
  • Smoked octopus
  • Salmon chorizo
  • Smoked albacore loins
  • Smoked oysters

About us

Better Seafood Supply has grown out of a hands-on, family-based operation we started while living on Haida Gwaii/Queen Charlotte Islands 40 years ago. Back then, we fished halibut, salmon and crab on our troller/longliner Hopefull. Now, we specialize in selling a full range of sustainable local seafood to domestic markets.

Anne and Gregg checking traps for Dungeness crab

We opened Cowichan Bay Seafood, a retail outlet, in the scenic village of Cowichan Bay in 2010, and then a location at the Victoria Public Market in 2013. Now we are fully based in Victoria, and have split our operation into a retail and eatery branch (Oak Bay Seafood), and a wholesale supply branch serving restaurant and grocery buyers out of our brand-new facility in central Victoria, operating as Better Seafood Supply. In both cases, we draw on our long-term experience in all parts of the seafood food chain, and our commitment to bringing our customers the best available local and sustainable seafood.

Anne and Gregg Best,
Better Seafood Supply