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This is what good healthy seafood is all about.
Start with a couple of eager young teenagers to help pick live
fish out of the gear and you end up with a product that is as fresh as
fesh could be. We catch all five species of salmon in our
gillnets and the freshness begins with how they are treated. As
we catch the fish they are usually alive and immediately bled.
While they are bleeding they are placed in subfreezing slush ice.
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Simeon
and Benjamin Daigle "pickin' fish"
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After filling the skiff's fish tote with carefully
handled fish they are sorted by specie into larger totes with the same
slush ice. These are lined with a brailer used for pulling and
weighing each of the specie types for sale to a distributor on a daily
basis. Because we don't catch a lot of fish we have the time to
properly care for them. Of all the fish available in the lower
Cook Inlet ours are among the top pick for quality.
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Simeon tossing a big
silver into a tote on the barge
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Big red salmon or Sockeye's of the Kenai Peninsula and Cook Inlet are
the primary target specie. This is one of the most desirable
salmon for table fare. A single fillet off a fish like this one
would weight about 3 lbs.
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Tim, Jane and Logan
with an 10+ lb red.
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You couldn't have a fresher king
if you went out and caught it yourself. King Salmon are not the primary
specie that we target but we are always grateful for the ones that we
catch. These were just raised out of a tote to be transferred to
our tender's boat. The hold of this boat is also full of
subfreezing ice-water to maintain a fish temperature of around 31
degrees. The fish do not freeze at this temperature and retains
maximum freshness.
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Annie, Ben and
Sara with two big Kings
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Off to market with the finest quality Alaskan
salmon you can beg, borrow or catch. These can be ordered through
this website using our contact info
for frozen overnight delivery or you could take personal
delivery of them on the dock in Homer. In that case you could process
them yourself and take them home to savor for your "winter pack."
If your coming to Homer anyway you may as well throw in some
nice sockeyes, silvers or kings right from the fisherman direct. This
is what makes our product unique. Now you know your fishermen
personally. You can be sure that you are getting the best wild Alaska
salmon you could buy.
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