The season's first shipment of Copper River salmon met with the usual hoopla in Seattle. Alaska Airlines photoThe department had anticipated a harvest of 36,000 sockeye and 1,800 Chinook for the period.
Another 12-hour opener is set to begin at 7 a.m. Monday.
An Alaska Airlines jet arrived early Friday in Seattle with the first load of fish. The plane carried product from processors Ocean Beauty, Trident and Copper River Seafoods.
A cook-off ensued featuring top chefs from Seattle restaurants, plus an Air Force Reserve chef representing the 446th Airlift Wing at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
10 comments:
That King Salmon in the picture is one of the last of the species ever to show it's face on earth thanks to the greedy men who insist on killing them off.
Not much of a Copper whopper. They need to open one inside district to let them catch some big boys for the promo.
As a sport fisherman who makes a living as a longliner, I've seen a lot of fish....The king salmon in the photo is turning red on the belly already. Having caught ocean fresh kings, any similarity between those and Copper River kings is in name only. I congratulate the marketers, but prefer Troll caught salmon.
If you listen to NWCN News Channel 2 they say it is all Hype, poor Quality and over priced. Side by side taste test with the Farm Raised crap, you can't taste the difference. I don't think they should shoot the commercial fishermen in the heart. We work hard catching wild salmon and there is no comparison between Wild and Farm Raised Salmon.
I wish NWCN would talk about the Threat Pebble Mine making to the economy. We need all the help we can get. 1.5 billion dollars is generated every year in Bristol Bay and about 1/3 of that comes here to Washington State. We spend that money here, everywhere from the coffee shops to major events.
Go catch those Wild Salmon, keep them cold, then serve them hot, and enjoy life.
@ 10:52 AM -- that's actually the red carpet reflecting off of the fish...
Dude, Bristol Bay is worth way more than $1.5 billion per year, that is just domestic value, that does not include the foreign value which is 3 times the domestic value, total about $6 billion. Learn to read better and learn how much your fish are really worth.
good to know! Thanks. DUDE
Kudo's to Copper River fishermen for generating so much publicity for the 3rd Alaska salmon fishery of the season. Following the Alaska winter troll fishery which starts on Oct 11th of the previous year or January first of this year depending on how you want to consider it, and the SE Spring Troll fishery which began on the first of May this year.
This publicity for these wonderful wild Alaska salmon helps all of us in the Alaska fisheries. Thank you Copper River fishermen and marketers. As for taste, I would put Yukon or Copper River Chinook, and Alaska ocean brite troll caught feeders up against any farmed salmon. I was actually in a taste test at fish expo years ago and the farmed salmon was mushy and relatively bland while the Sitka Sound troll caught winter king was firm and oh so sweet.
Eric Jordan, Alaska wild salmon troller.
Now that you totally greased the Copper River fleet, tell us how the Copper River King does against the Wild Troll caught King?
All wild kings are good. But none can compare to the now almost gone Yukon river king. THE very best!
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