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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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The boat that caught your fish: Traceability makes for sustainable seafood in our fishermen-owned co-op | Alaska Gold Seafood
At Seafood Producers Cooperative, we are tracing the fish back to each boat that caught it. We work with a fleet of small boats, each of which frequently catches multiples...
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How our Co-op Works for Clean Fisheries | Alaska Gold Seafood
Our co-op’s fishermen helped develop slinky pots to create a cleaner sablefish (black cod) fishery. Over the course of 15 years, Seafood Producers Cooperative (SPC) fishermen worked to create a...
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What’s so special about Alaska Gold Halibut? | Alaska Gold Seafood
What's so special about Alaska Gold Halibut? Simply put, our Alaska Gold Halibut is special for its luscious flake, which is delicate but meaty. Its snow white meat is naturally...
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Wild-caught seafood, a nutrient-rich protein with minimal impact on the planet | Alaska Gold Seafood
It's amazing how efficient wild-caught seafood is in terms of giving us a nutrient-rich protein that has minimal impact on the planet. And this is truly an under-reported story. Below...
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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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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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Hook and line seafood: The highest quality seafood
Hook and line-caught seafood: The highest quality seafood Traditional hook and line fishing methods reduce by-catch and produce a tastier fish. Most of the people we meet can understand that...
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What is the definition of sustainable seafood? | Alaska Gold Seafood
The Duna, a wooden trolling boat built in 1936. Here’s a definition of sustainable seafood from SPC member Amy Grondin who fishes with her husband Greg Friedrichs on the...
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Sustained by Salmon: Troll-Caught Salmon from Alaska Gold | Alaska Gold Seafood
Where does your seafood come from? Our salmon is hand-caught by families in Alaska who are sustained by salmon. Here’s a day in the life of family trolling boat from...
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Line-caught Albacore tuna | Alaska Gold Seafood
This video was shot by Cori Halversen of the F/V Hans Halvor and shows the Halversens’ fishing family life catching sashimi grade Pacific Albacore for Seafood Producers Cooperative. The Halvorsens represent 3...
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A Better Way to Buy Fish | Alaska Gold Seafood
A Better Way to Buy Fish: 5 Reasons To Get Fish From A Fishermen’s Co-op When you buy fish from a fishermen’s cooperative, you get your fish from a fisherman. We...
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Troll-caught salmon | Alaska Gold Seafood
Alaska Gold™ wild salmon are line-caught One Fish At A Time using traditional hook and line methods (aka trolling). Troll-caught salmon are known for ultra-premium quality and sustainability. By catching salmon on...
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One Fish At A Time
The Beauty of Line-caught Salmon We small boat hook and line fishermen catch and process each fish One Hook One Fish At A Time. Hook and line fishing, otherwise known as...
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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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What's so special about Alaska Gold Sablefish | Alaska Gold Seafood
Dear Alaska Gold customers, When customers ask us what’s our favorite fish, it’s difficult to pick one because we have just about all of them in our home freezers. But...
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What’s better? Fresh or Frozen Seafood? | Alaska Gold Seafood
What’s better? Fresh or Frozen Seafood? As it is with most of life, the most accurate answer to the question of fresh seafood versus frozen is: It depends. Nevertheless, 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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Frozen Seafood Delivery | Alaska Gold Seafood
We ship all perishable items (frozen fish portions and fillets) via FedEx, UPS, OnTrac or GSO. We do not deliver on weekends and will not ship to have a perishable...
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Frozen Seafood Delivery | Alaska Gold Seafood
Here’s a picture from a customer of what our frozen coho salmon portions look like right out of the box. Included is enough dry ice to keep the order frozen...
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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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Wild, line-caught seafood
With a growing interest in sustainable seafood and eating fish that has minimal impact on the ocean, we have been getting lots of inquiries regarding our hook and line-caught seafood....
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Why Frozen Seafood is the Best Choice… | Alaska Gold Seafood
Fresh versus Frozen Fish We often get questions about fresh versus frozen fish. Is fresh fish or frozen fish the better option? We break down our response into two parts....
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Stewards of the Resource | Alaska Gold Seafood
The fishermen-owners of Seafood Producers Cooperative (SPC) catch our Alaska Gold Seafood with pride. Since our livelihoods depend on the health of our planet, we understand our responsibility to protect...
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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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