| Wild Kenai River sockeye
salmon is not readily available to North American consumers because the
entire commercial catch has historically been shipped to Japan, where
fish quality is very important. Until recently, only Alaskans and
sportfishing tourists have known the pleasure of dining on fresh Kenai
salmon.
Quality starts with the fisherman!
At Always Wild Seafood, we
pride ourselves on gently handling each salmon as if it were going to be
our dinner! When you place your order, we select the best fish of
our catch and handle them individually for you. |
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Salmon is hand picked from the drift net. |
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How fresh is
the fish you buy?
When you buy fresh seafood at
a supermarket or specialty store, it has typically been bought and sold
between several "middlemen" and can take a week to get to the retail
market. It is still good to eat, but cannot compare to the amazing
experience of tasting salmon that was in the water less than 48 hours
before! Your wild salmon from Always Wild Seafood most often
arrives at your door within 36 hours of swimming in the pure, cold
waters of Alaska, and no later than 48 hours! Unless you fly up
and catch it yourself, you can't get any fresher wild salmon!
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Your fish will be handled
individually |
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Where do the
other fish go?
Not everyone
has the time or inclination to "specialize" in direct marketing their
salmon. Our salmon season is short and not our primary means of income,
so we have the luxury of taking our time to make your salmon experience
the best it can be. We pick the best of the best for our
customers, keep them on ice and they are packed with frozen
gel packs and at the FedEx by 10:30 the next morning. The rest are
sold to the "cannery" or fish processing plant, which is where most
boats sell their fish. Boats line up to deliver at the loading
dock of a processing plant (or another boat called a "tender") and toss
their salmon into mesh baskets known as brailers. Brailers loaded
with around 800 pounds of salmon are hoisted by crane to the dock or
"tender", where they are tossed into totes or the hold of the tender.
Inside the processing plant, salmon placed on conveyor belts and cleaned
by teams of workers, before heading to the wholesalers in large totes. |
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Kenai Salmon
transported from a boat to the dock in a brailer |
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