A CORPORATE GIFT OF SMOKED SALMON SAYS YOUR COMPANY HAS TASTE
A gift of smoked Irish salmon is an ideal opportunity to demonstrate your appreciation for the support of your clients and customers and demonstrates a real commitment to indigenous Irish companies and the local jobs they create.
The Irish Salmon Growers Association is encouraging businesses to choose Smoked Irish Salmon, when selecting the perfect gift for their customers. The taste and quality of Smoked Irish Salmon is world renowned. The wild and challenging Irish seascape provides the ideal environment to produce a unique Irish food product, which is processed and packaged as a convenient Christmas gift. The taste and texture of Irish Salmon offers the smoke-houses an ideal raw material to apply their traditional skills and expertise, to bring consumers a truly special food experience.
ISGA Executive Secretary, Richie Flynn, said, "There are many smoked salmon products on the market, so it can be difficult to be sure that you are buying authentic Smoked Irish Salmon. The best way to make sure you are getting the real thing is to check the packaging. By law, all smoked fish must carry the location of where it was caught or farmed. The smokehouse must label the product as being "Smoked Irish Salmon" and not just as salmon smoked in Ireland as is sometimes the case. Some products carry the label "Irish Smoked Salmon" which is quite different in that the salmon used may not be Irish."
Mr Flynn continued, "As an Island, we produce a very small volume of salmon every year. Unlike the major players such as Scotland and Norway, we are a small scale producer and we are proud of our visible commitment to product quality. The Irish fish farming industry is very much committed to quality and has embraced the very stringent and independently audited standards developed by BIM, including Organic certification and the Irish Quality Salmon scheme. More recently the industry has embraced the development of the Eco Label standard, which certifies the farm's respect for the environment in the way they operate. All of these standards aim to assure the consumer about the quality of both the systems behind the industry as well as the actual product.
Smoked Irish Salmon is part of our food heritage, it tells people about the quality of our sea, the quality of our people and their unique craft. The production of quality smoked Irish salmon involves farmers from hatchery to the sea and professional artisnal smoke-houses – all of which provide significant employment in remote rural areas. Share the experience of unique, high quality home-grown smoked Irish salmon with your customers.
