Seafood Recipe

Alaska has a wonderful range of summer festivals for those who love and celebrate seafood. Here are a few:
Kake Dog Salmon Festival – July 24th
Celebrates chum or dog salmon its a gathering of friends and family who return home to celebrate much the same way that the salmon do. Its features canoe and boat races, [...]

Overall salmon fishing is going fairly well, although poor returns have ensured fisherman are making more for their fish as there is increased demand. Alaskan fisherman are moving around to different area’s to ensure a good catch. Salmon is so much in demand that even Western Alaska are getting more pay. The projected catch for [...]

A small community in Togiak Southwest Alaska, is seeing a revival in its seafood industry thanks to forward thinking and grant money. The area harvests sockeye salmon, and it is hoped that after the expert training on marketing, economics, HACCP, first aid and processing. The the area will be able to produce sockeye on par [...]

Melody Dalbec
Fairbanks, AK
199.5lbs

An Alaskan Native caught a whooping 200lb halibut not just once but twice. The first time it got away broke the line and swam under the boat and it was caught again on the other side. If Melody Dalbecs fish is still the largest caught at the end of the Halibut Hullabulo [...]

The following recipe comes from My Columbian Recipes, a fun Columbian food blog:
Ingredients
(4 servings)

2 tablespoons olive oil
1/4 cup butter
1 garlic clove
1/3 cup chopped onion
4 to 5 cups fish or chicken stock
1 large pinch of saffron
1/2 cup white wine
11/2 cup Arborio rice
Salt and pepper
1/3 cup parmesan cheese
fresh Alaskan shrimp

Directions
1. In a saucepan over medium heat, bring [...]

The Karluk river is to be closed for salmon fishing including commercial at the rivers mouth until July 16th. This follows a week of poor returns. The closure includes all fishing including catch and release. This is indeed sad but highlights Alaska’s ongoing commitment to sustainable fishing and protecting the precious salmon. Its is these [...]

A Developer named Aqua bounty in Mass. has been developing a salmon that will grow at twice the normal rate. The fish is designed to be grown in farms, its an Atlantic salmon with a growth hormone gene from Chinook salmon and a genetic switch from ocean pout. This genetically modified fish will be able [...]

A reporter and Nutrition Professor for The Atlantic recently returned from a trip to Alaska to observe Alaskan fisherman and salmon processing sponsored by The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute her observations were:

people who work in the processing plants often come from other countries and work very hard working 12-16 hour days and 6-7 days a [...]

The new USDA dietary guidelines were just released here’s a summary:
Fat and Salt:
Saturated fat intake should be less than 7% of a total days caloric intake, it was 10%
Trans fats have been halved now 0.5% its best to try and have as a little as possible in the diet
Sodium:
This has also been lowered now the [...]

Artist Pam Longobardi is famous for making pieces of art from waste collected along beaches, Longobardi an Art Professor at Georgia State University and an artist famous around the World is coming to Alaska. One of her recent art pieces was a large hand mirror murel made from black plastic. It is hoped that she [...]