MEET THE truLOCAL SUPPLIER: CAUDLE’S CATCH

The Caudles know seafood. “I got into fish at birth, basically,” says Matt Caudle, retail manager at Caudle’s Catch. “I was very young when the business started, so it’s really the only thing I’ve ever done as a job.” The Caudle family is from the east coast. “That’s where our seafood roots come from — I guess it was in our blood,” says Caudle. “My father started the business in Kitchener in 1986, and we’ve been here ever since.”

That decades-long commitment to sourcing the best seafood makes Caudle’s Catch the perfect partner for truLOCAL, which delights in shipping the finest in seafood to fish fans across the province. “We’re offering a couple of wild-caught items at truLOCAL and we’re really proud of both of them,” says Caudle. “We get a wild Icelandic cod filet and a wild-caught sockeye salmon. You can tell the freshness: it looks just beautiful, very appetizing.”

What’s the key to scoring the freshest seafood possible? Caudle says it’s all about the journey. “One type of cod can be vastly different from another type of cod, even if it’s the same species,” he says, explaining that a cod caught in Iceland might be frozen there, sent on a boat to China (where it thaws and is refrozen), then sent by boat to Canada. As he puts it, “It’s the same species—but it’s far from the same fish.” Caudle’s Catch, however, prides itself on bringing in the good stuff, VIP-style, ensuring the deliciousness truLOCAL subscribers count on. “The stuff from truLOCAL is flown in from Iceland multiple times a week,” says Caudle. “It arrives at the airport and it comes to our shop. It goes through our cold chain, never leaves temperature, and we cut it and pack and freeze it within a day. Your customer always gets supreme freshness.”