A rite of passage for area salmon will now fill freezers at area food pantries in your community. The Door County Food Pantry Coalition, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, and Baileys Harbor Fish Company are working together to send close to 11,000 pounds of harvested salmon to the coalition's food pantry members. Philanthropic Services Officer Adam Peronto says the fish processing facilities in Sturgeon Bay and Kewaunee harvest between 40,000 to 50,000 pounds of salmon yearly when the fish spawns, and their eggs are collected. Still, very little of it goes back to the community in an impactful way.

Peronto credits one of its donors with the idea and, thanks to that, he feels they will be able to stock all nine Door County Food Pantry Coalition locations with salmon for a year. The coalition's big harvest day is October 10th at the Strawberry Creek Chinook Facility.