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What’s the difference between king salmon and coho salmon? | Alaska Gold Seafood
We're looking at the difference in size, taste and nutrtional values of king salmon and coho salmon.
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What is dry aged seafood? | Alaska Gold Seafood
Have you heard of dry aged seafood? We get it. It sounds strange. We all want fish that tastes like it just came out of the ocean and aging fish...
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Wild Alaska Salmon…it’s Made In The Usa | Alaska Gold Seafood
91% of seafood purchased in the United States is imported and up to a third of that is product of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. Essentially pirate fish. And pirate...
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A Guide to Preparing Your Frozen Seafood Order | Alaska Gold Seafood
So, you’ve received an order from Alaska Gold Seafood. How do you handle the salmon you’ve ordered? How do you prepare the halibut shipped to you? What do you do...
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The Best of Alaskan Sablefish | Alaska Gold Seafood
Sablefish? Black Cod? Both? Most people refer to sablefish as "black cod," though we have many customers in Hawaii, southern California, and even the East Coast who call it butterfish...
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Gluten Free Alaska Gold Recipes | Alaska Gold Seafood
Coho Salmon with Olive Salsa Fresh, healthful, and tasty, our Alaska Gold Coho Salmon is topped with a Mediterranean medley of green olive salsa. *DF, GF King Salmon with Lemon...
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Seafood and Brain Health
Eating a meal of Alaska seafood with omega-3 fatty acids may protect against memory loss and thinking problems. That's because eating fatty fish such as wild salmon and sablefish gives...
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How Seafood Producers Cooperative Helps Ensure Food Security for Americans | Alaska Gold Seafood
One of the biggest challenges facing human beings in this day and age is how to bring food to our tables in a sustainable way. Food production has a massive impact...
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B Vitamins And Wild Alaskan Seafood | Alaska Gold Seafood
Vitamin B12 is a key nutrient missing from many Americans’ diets. Vitamin B12 is vital for red blood cell production and aids in recovery from athletic activity. Vitamin B12 supports...
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The best seafood from the best fishermen | Alaska Gold Seafood
Norm Pillen is the beloved President of Seafood Producers Cooperative (SPC). He has been a fishermen-owner of the co-op since 1987. Norm is well-known and appreciated by our small boat...
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Line-caught salmon, quality over quantity | Alaska Gold Seafood
Only a small percentage of Alaskan salmon are caught using traditional hook and line methods that our Seafood Producers Cooperative members use. Our line-caught salmon is truly special. In essence, it’s a...
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Buy Alaska Seafood from the Producers | Alaska Gold Seafood
We offer direct access to a cooperative of quality-oriented producers who fish using traditional methods for wild salmon, halibut, sablefish and sashimi-grade albacore tuna. Our line-caught seafood is truly special. We produce...
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Becky Haun on Living the Fishing Family Lifestyle | Alaska Gold Seafood
Like any story worth telling, it started with a dream. A $2500 investment and then they were off to go fishing. They were 21 years old, in love, and studying...
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Meet Ruben Torres, our Seafood Plant Manager | Alaska Gold Seafood
Ruben Torres, our Sitka Plant Manager, is a hands-on leader. At Seafood Producers Cooperative, the people are the difference. Meet Ruben Torres, SPC’s Sitka Plant Manager. Everything about Ruben is...
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Meet the Fish Mongers | Alaska Gold Seafood
For as long as people have been catching fish for a living to bring people food to eat there have been fish mongers. Fish mongers, or fish mongerers as we...
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The World’s Best Canned Tuna | Alaska Gold Seafood
Once they try our gourmet canned tuna, our customers are hooked. Our tuna is nothing like any tuna our customers have ever tried before and we hear it all the time. “This...
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Sitka Salmon Love | Alaska Gold Seafood
Underwater filmmaker/artist Ellie Schmidt, originally from Colorado and recent graduate of Carleton College in Minnesota, spent last summer as a Sitka fellow. She also worked as a deckhand for Seafood...
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Pregnant? Eat more fish | Alaska Gold Seafood
Recently, the FDA changed its recommendations to encourage pregnant mothers to eat more seafood. It turns out that the rewards of eating seafood, especially certain types like salmon, will actually make your baby...
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What is the secret to fishing? | Alaska Gold Seafood
What is the secret to fishing? What does the data show? The secret is… Be there. An informal poll among us SPC fishermen revealed that those who are out fishing...
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A Coho Salmon Recipe and the Health Benefits of Eating Mediterranean | Alaska Gold Seafood
Dear Alaska Gold customers, Our fishermen-owned co-op has been working hard to safely harvest the world’s best seafood. Serving our Alaska Gold Seafood offers a way of life and food...
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What is wild? What is sustainable? What is life like as a solitary fisherman? | Alaska Gold Seafood
Born and educated in Switzerland, Theo Grutter was destined to go into the corporate world, though that life wouldn’t be for him. He moved to Paris and met Clara, a...
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Just how easy is it to cook black cod? | Alaska Gold Seafood
Hectic day at work? Don’t know what to cook? Sometimes it’s easy to fall back on something that’s supposedly quick and easy. Some “easy,” fast food is tempting, because we think that...
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Troll fisherman’s poem for the Fairweather Grounds, SE Alaska
Here’s what it’s like on the Fairweather Ground when the air is crisp and clear: Forty miles offshore and the foothills disappear. I have no sense of distance, could I...
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SPC honors a great cooperative member | Alaska Gold Seafood
We saw him biking around Sitka just a week ago—full of energy, bouncing along as he always does. 80 years old and in better shape than most people a quarter...
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Sustainable Seafood
Our fishermen’s co-op has a tradition of quality and sustainable seafood, which is how we make our living. Quality, for us, not only means great tasting, well-handled fish delivered with care...
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SPC Premium Seafood Brands: Our Story | Alaska Gold Seafood
Seafood Producers Cooperative. A sign of quality. We fishermen are the proud owners of Seafood Producers Cooperative, which is the connection between eaters that appreciate high quality sustainably harvested seafood...
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Wine pairings with seafood | Alaska Gold Seafood
Just as our tastes in wine are subjective, so are our tastes in fish, but here is our attempt to provide objective descriptions of the fish we offer and possible wine...
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Seafood Delivery: How to get premium quality seafood delivered to your door | Alaska Gold Seafood
We deliver super high quality hook and line caught seafood to customers across the United States. Just order from Our Online Store. Here’s what you get: * Premium Quality Wild Salmon, Halibut,...
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Black Cod (Sablefish) | Alaska Gold Seafood
Have you ever had smoked black cod? Chefs who know dig the fact that it’s sustainably caught a mile below the surface of the sea and has 50% more omega-3s than...
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The Sea Around Us | Alaska Gold Seafood
Rachel Carson’s The Sea Around Us is a canonical tome and it did as much for the oceans and the study of oceanography as her more famous book The Silent Spring did for environmentalism....
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A History of Trolling in Southeast Alaska | Alaska Gold Seafood
As the Sailor Loves the Sea by painter Ballard Hadman, originally published in 1951, is a beautiful history of trolling in Southeast Alaska, and offers as good as any look at...
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At SPC, the People are the Difference | Alaska Gold Seafood
At SPC, the people are the difference. Meet Dave Newman, Fresh Production Supervisor in our Sitka plant. Dave really embodies that Alaska spirit and sense of humor. Every year since he...
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Small boat fisherman’s lifestyle | Alaska Gold Seafood
The fisher gets involved again in greater things and forces than mankind. In such a volcanic moment a spell may break its hold on him. His power from deep down...
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A Fly Fishing Longliner
What does a troller do when he’s not trolling? Fishing, of course. And flying. Seafood Producers Cooperative longlining member for 28 years Kevin Mulligan now takes people out to fish...
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Freezing Preserves Freshness | Alaska Gold Seafood
Cold crew member. Ensuring the highest quality fish means handling it at very cold temperatures. Most of our processing is done at -40F to maintain “sushi grade” quality. When you...
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Jay and Becky Haun
Jay and I have enjoyed commercial fishing together for thirty-five years in Washington and Alaska. He had dreamed of being a fisherman as a young man. Part of that dream...
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Family-Friendly Seafood
Many of our fishermen’s cooperative members run family boats. They are part of the Seafood Producers Cooperative because their fathers, uncles or grandmothers were members. Some of our fishing families represent...
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Does Seafood Have Terroir?
Does seafood have terroir? A lot of wines boast the concept of terroir, which is the special set of circumstances of geography, geology, climate, soil type, topography, that interact with...
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Extraordinary Life on a Southeast Alaska Fishing Boat
Soaking: The extraordinary life on a Southeast Alaska Fishing Boat Shared with us by Nancy Behnken of the F/V Dipper.
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As the Sailor Loves the Sea
“Alaska is as impersonal, as inhospitable to man as is the sea, and it has a kindred immensity. It is as untouched, untouchable, untamed. It is in the union of...
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Alaska is a Big Place
Alaska is a Big Place. Our fish processing plant in Sitka is unique in that it is busy most of the year with a number of different fisheries, but there...
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Flash Frozen Wild Salmon: Fresher Than Fresh | Alaska Gold Seafood
Alaska Salmon with Miso Ginger Rub. Photo courtesy of Alaska Seafood. Alaska Gold Flash Frozen Wild Salmon are caught on hook and line in Alaska’s pristine glacial waters One Fish...
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Fisherman Spotlight: Jeremy Brown | Alaska Gold Seafood
Fisherman Spotlight: Jeremy Brown The fish on AlaskaGoldBrand.com is caught by the owner/members of Seafood Producers Cooperative. SPC is owned by over 550 members who fish the waters of the...
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Seafood Producers Cooperative: Our Co-op
Alaska Gold Seafood is caught by members of Seafood Producers Cooperative (SPC). SPC is owned and operated by quality-oriented fishermen. Quality is the keystone of our mission. Ryan Wilson on the...
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Cleaning Cohos by the Dozen by Jana Suchy
We were still tied to the pilings under the ice chute—iced and grubbed and fueled and all ready to fish—but Dick still wasn’t sure which way to go. Only seven...
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From Our Family to Yours
From our Family to Yours… Seafood Producers Cooperative is made up of over 550 fishermen members, who are the owners of and stakeholders for our cooperative. Many SPC members come...
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Making Fish is Easy
Minimal Seasoning Required, Tastes like it just came Fresh Out of the Sea. Making fish is easy. As it is with a great cut of beef or pork, minimal seasoning is...
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Fresh or Frozen Seafood?
“The freshest tasting seafood is that which has been frozen shortly after harvest and remains that way until cooked.” Jane Brody, NY Times Nutrition Q: Fresh is better than...
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The History of Our Fishermen’s Co-op: Perseverance | Alaska Gold Seafood
80 years ago, a group of halibut fishermen realized that the best way to ensure that their products were delivered with quality from ocean to market was to process their...
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How Food Producer Co-ops Save the World
Seafood Producers Cooperative is, as our name suggests, a producers co-op. Which means that we’re owned and operated by fishermen. As owners, the fishermen are our shareholders. They call the...
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