Arctic char is the clean, delicate flesh of a cold-water salmonid that sits squarely between salmon and trout — its flake firmer and finer than salmon, its colour a pale coral to deep salmon-pink, its flavour milder, sweeter and notably less oily. A true fish of the far north, it is the most cold-tolerant freshwater fish on Earth, prized by Arctic peoples for millennia and now farmed in cold, clean water as one of the more sustainable salmon alternatives.