Village Native corp. wants to make salmon ‘like wine’

Kodiak Daily Mirror ^ | Friday, June 24th, 2005 | LAUREN VALONE

[nickcarraway]

A Native corporation out of Old Harbor has a plan to sell fish

[sharktrager]

Aged bottled salmon just doesn't sound good.

Damned If I Know

[goodnesswins]

They're just trying to make the price of salmon HIGHER than it already is......

[Fog Nozzle]

...just received a major grant...

That's all you really need to know.

[newheart]

Yeah, somehow I just don't think I can see buying a 1998 Kodiak Coho. Even quick-frozen theres is something disturbing about ageing fish.

[newheart]

Maybe all salmon will be considered 'nouveau'.

[Sonny M]

Aramark is the devil and should be hunted down and destroyed.

[Pessimist]

Copper River King Salmon went for roughly $23/lb this year in Cleveland, w/ Copper River sockeye just a fw bucks behind.

Hey, if they can get it, why not?

To my wife and I, the farm raised is just as good at 1/4 the price.

Stan

[taxesareforever]

The "caviar" of Alaska, Bottled Salmon.

[ccmay]

There is a difference. Much of what gets sold in the Lower 48 is inferior pink salmon and chum salmon, aka dog salmon, so called because natives consider it fit only for dog food.

Wild king salmon from the Yukon for me, thanks!!

-ccm

[quantim]

Should I ping the wine group?

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Salmon is just like a fine wine. Every time I take a bite I spit it right back out.

[Caipirabob]

There are plenty of other fish in the sea.

[avg_freeper]

Aramark runs the cafeteria and all the food services where I work. It's amazing how they can make anything taste bad.

BBQ Ribs? bad
Salad? bad
Cherry Pie? bad
Bacon BACON!!!!!! bad

They probably employee thousands of food engineers to research how to tweak each recipe just enough to bring out the bad.

And as an added "benefit" you get to pay Red Lobster prices for this food.

[Waco]

Lot more like baloney, than wine.

[Sonny M]

They ran the cafeteria at my first college, and then when I transferred, my second college.

I got food poisioning from both of them.

[Eska]

I live on upper yukon, 8 miles from border. The kings are usually here by the 4th of July. Got the fish net ready and might put in this weekend. The kings are great to eat but I prefer the chums for smoking and ya can't beat strips all winter. I also get a few silvers in my chum nets when that run happens in fall. Most the natives actually prefer the chums where I live. Course they'd rather eat porcupine than pizza too. Have seen days where you'd get 15 kings a day in 60 foot net. Usually get 25 chums in the chum nets a day. We don't eat more than 10-15 kings a year, but its the best dog food you can find. WE fill a couple freezers and then usually hang a thousand chums on racks for dog food. Reason why they feed sled dogs chums is that usually by sept, it is freezing at night and fish don't spoil on racks. I just run knife from behind head to tail and run about 15 fish on a spruce pole. Stack poles across fish rack. Once it freezes good in oct, you can then just throw each dog a whole salmon every day and they get fat. They eat bones, eggs, head, and everything. Once they have been eating salmon, they wont touch 45 dollar a bag dog food for 3-4 days. Half dozen people here run fish wheels and not uncommon to get 35 kings a night when run is in full swing.

But in the end its all subsistence fishing. Use to be people sold fish to buyers that flew them to processors. Then the govt placed so many restrictions that buyers went under. Rather have people on govt dole than working I guess. So now, people get as many kings as they use to, but feed it to dogs than being able to sell it to buyers. Can't figure, but my dogs are quite happy.