Our Strategic Location

Great River Fish Company’s state-of-the-art fish processing facility is located just blocks from Lake Pepin, one of the largest natural cold water habitats of wild carp in the United States. Lake Pepin is fed by the Mississippi River. The lake is over one mile (two kilometers) wide and seventeen miles (25 kilometers) long. The wild carp species, Cyprinus carpio, and other fish species are caught throughout the year by local commercial fisherman. Due to our fish processing plant’s close proximity to Lake Pepin, over 95% of our wild carp arrive alive at our facility and are immediately placed on ice in large, specially-designed tubes. From there, the fish are staged for processing and shipping. This ensures the high quality and freshness of Great River Fish Company’s fish products.

high quality Processing

Great River Fish Company has invested in the finest fish processing technology available in the industry. We are excited to be one of first companies in the United States (USA) to use a high-speed Japanese fish scaler. Great River Fish Company's scaler uses high-pressure water to remove the toughest fish scales without damaging the skin or meat of the fish.

For frozen fish orders, we use our nitrogen tunnel blast freezer to instantly freeze the wild caught fish. This locks in freshness, quality and texture by freezing the fish to -100c in under eight minutes. The fish are then glazed (under 1%) for long-term freshness.

Our fish processing plant is set-up to produce any configuration of fish products that your company requires. Here are some of our typical customer processing requests:

• Headed
• Headed and Gutted
• Kitchen Ready (Fish are headed, gutted and all fins removed)
• Whole or Gutted
• Steaks (Kitchen Ready product is cross cut)
• Fillets and Fillet Portions (deep skinned or skin-on)

All of our wild fish products can be delivered scale-on or scale-off, skin-on or skin-off.

Take a tour of Great River Fish Company’s 10,000 square foot (1,100 sq/m) fish processing facility.

Contact us regarding custom processing of our premium wild fish products, quotes, and domestic and international shipping information for your order.