Season’s End

Another salmon season just wrapped up!  We worked hard, slept little and came home tired and happy and having harvested quite a few bright sockeye of our own.  I am so grateful for the abundance of this fishery, all due to the biologists who help manage it and ensure healthy runs for years to come.  I’m feeling very lucky to have a boat that ran well all season and for the opportunity to be a participant in this fishery.  My fish is currently making its way on a barge from Naknek, Alaska to Seattle, Washington where it will then travel by freezer truck to Vermont and Wyoming.  The great thing about barges and freezer trucks is that the carbon footprint of travel by sea and land is much less than that of frozen freight that travels by air, even if travel time is slower. 

I’m really looking forward to sharing fish with friends and family.  Nights cooking sockeye on the grill, curing gravlax and smoking some fillets for backcountry snacks and charcuteries!