PRE-ORDER: Wild Bristol Bay Sockeye Salmon Sides - 20 lbs

Available in 20lb shares, blast-frozen and vacuum packed. Our sides option is for folks that want a family sized meal for three or more, or don’t mind leftovers. Pull out a side of salmon at your next party or function, the presentation is stunning! Check out our recipe page for meal ideas.

Southeast Alaska hook and line fisherman don’t target sockeye salmon, as it is a predominately drift gillnet fishery. So we decided to source these fish from Western Alaska’s Bristol Bay Sockeye Salmon fishery. These fish come from the largest run of wild sockeye salmon in the world and are caught by fishermen in boats no longer than 32 ft and small 3-4 person crews, (see diagram of gillnetting in photos).

Drift Gillnetting is a fishery in which nets are run out and hauled back in by a hydraulic drum. The net hangs in the first 5 or so fathoms (1 fathom equals 6ft) of the water column. Gillnetters have multiple nets with different mesh sizes (the size of the holes in the gillnet), and can set the net that will most accurately target the species of salmon they are fishing. Each fish is hand-picked out of the net, and the sockeye salmon we source require the fishermen to bleed each fish and store them in a refrigerated seawater system.

*Gillnett diagram, Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI)

**Sockeye Salmon illustration, Amanda M Jorgenson