The company was born out of co‑founder Glen Creaser’s move from the South Shore to Ontario for university, where he quickly realized how hard it was to find seafood that matched what he grew up with in Riverport. “I kind of hated the seafood… so I’d start bringing it in from Nova Scotia,” he said. “That slowly turned into a side hustle, and now Larry’s Catch has been born.”

Creaser named the business after his father, Larry, a lifelong fisherman. “Larry is my father. He grew up in Riverport, and he comes from a very long line of fishermen… it’s kind of my way of carrying on that tradition,” he said. “What better name than Larry’s Catch? It’s got a good ring to it.”

What began as personal orders soon became a direct‑to‑consumer service delivering Canadian wild‑caught seafood to doorsteps. “We’re now a direct to your door seafood delivery business, which started in Ontario, but over these last couple months, we’ve gone Canada‑wide,” Creaser said. “So coast to coast, we’re just missing the territories and Newfoundland… currently working on that.”

He says the Dragons’ Den opportunity was about more than investment. “We saw it as an amazing opportunity to, you know, spread our mission and spread the word and also get a little bit of funding to help us do that,” Creaser said. “We really want to make Canadian wild‑caught seafood as accessible as possible to Canadians… there’s still a lot of work to do.”

Creaser appeared on set with his co‑founders James Quinn and Javier Mejorada, two close friends he met on his first day at university. “They’re excellent business people. I definitely couldn’t have done it alone,” he said. “We kind of cover, you know, across Canada,” he added, noting their ties to British Columbia and Ontario and the time they’ve spent in Nova Scotia.

Despite the national growth, the company’s South Shore base has remained central. “I’ve been very overwhelmed with the local support… around the South Shore and even all of Nova Scotia,” Creaser said. “A lot of people have been spreading the word and… just a lot of positive notes coming our way.”

Looking ahead, Creaser says the focus is on expanding access and improving service. “One of those things would be expanding to Newfoundland,” he said. “We really want to open warehouses in Nova Scotia and in BC… deliver things a lot faster… get prices down… and still expanding our reach because right now we can deliver to around 80 per cent of the population, we want to make that 100.”

Larry’s Catch makes its Dragons’ Den pitch tonight on CBC at 8 p.m. Atlantic, and the episode will also stream on CBC Gem.