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Fish Have Tails | Alaska Gold Seafood
We receive questions about whether customers have the option to order center cuts only for our wild salmon fillets. We’ll address that here by noting that fish have tails. Some...
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Shipping Sustainable Seafood in Recyclable Packaging | Alaska Gold Seafood
In a previous blog we shared how traceability is important because it proves where our fish came from. We are proud of the fact that our fish comes from clean...
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Shipping Seafood During the Holidays | Alaska Gold Seafood
Dear Alaska Gold Customers, The holiday season is upon us and it can make shipping perishable seafood a little more difficult, but a little planning is all we need to...
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A guide to our wild salmon with tasting notes | Alaska Gold Seafood
We offer these tasting notes to the different species of wild Alaskan salmon we sell. It goes without saying that all the seafood we sell is wild caught as finfish...
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Why Wild? Why Alaska Gold Seafood
We get questions about whether our seafood is wild or why to eat wild salmon. Or why choose Alaska Gold salmon. First, our seafood is wild-caught by the fishermen-owners of...
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Do you know your fisherman? | Alaska Gold Seafood
We’ve got all kinds of fishermen in our fleet. Some are poets, some are mathematicians. We’ve got painters, musicians, rocket scientists. Here’s Mike Rentel who comes from a mechanical engineering...
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Setting the Standard for Frozen Wild Seafood | Alaska Gold Seafood
The below technical article originally appeared in New Food Magazine and is a story about Seafood Producers Cooperative fisherman George Eliason and freezing salmon on his boat the Tammy Lin. In Sitka,...
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Since 1944 A Relentless Commitment to Quality: The Formation of our Fishermen-owned Co-op | Alaska Gold Seafood
On May 12th, 1944 the legal contract for the formation of our fishermen-owned co-op was signed. This is the story of how West Coast fishermen would band together to form our...
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Since 1944 A Relentless Commitment to Quality: Celebrating the Special Place Where We Operate | Alaska Gold Seafood
The Loran captained by John Murray with the Fairweather Range in the background. The Loran was lost in an accident at sea in 2005. Murray survived and is now the...
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Flash Frozen Seafood At Its Peak In Quality | Alaska Gold Seafood
Here are many reasons why you should eat frozen seafood over “fresh.” Blind taste tests have shown that frozen fish many times taste better than “fresh, never frozen” fish. A...
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Stock up and save! We are a fishermen-owned co-op—100% owned and funded by fishermen with 100% of profits going to fishermen. Since 1944, we’ve had a relentless commitment to quality....
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Where to buy Sustainable Seafood | Alaska Gold Seafood
People around the world are concerned about whether what they eat is sustainable and rightfully so. Food is perhaps our deepest connection to the earth and its rhythms. Seafood, in...
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What is the definition of Sustainable Seafood? | Alaska Gold Seafood
Salmon run view from above. Photo courtesy of Alaska Seafood Nature, by nature, produces excess. Cut open a tomato and see how many seeds there are. Somewhere between none of...
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The Sustainability of Shipping Seafood | Alaska Gold Seafood
We Take Shipping Sustainable Seafood Seriously Your frozen seafood should be premium quality and brought to you with minimal impact on the planet. As a fishermen-owned co-op, we use sustainable fishing...
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