We see kelp as the future’: Indigenous company highlights seafood agriculture off Vancouver Island – CTV News
Feb. 8, 2022
Tofino, B.C. –
Stevie Dennis has always felt a natural affinity towards the sea. Growing up on the west coast of Vancouver Island, he’s spent his entire life working and living on boats. Be it as a commercial fisherman, diver or whale watching guide, he’s tried it all. But nothing called to him in the way kelp has.
That’s why over a year ago, Dennis and his business partner, Jordan White, launched Naas Foods, an Indigenous-led company that produces organic kelp products in Tofino.
Following in the footsteps of Louis Druehl, the first commercial seaweed operator in North America, the co-founders have been working towards building a kelp farm in the Clayoquot Sound for the past three years.
