WHERE CAN YOU FIND SOCKEYE SALMON?
The catching area for sockeye salmon extends across the North Pacific Ocean, encompassing a vast range from the Kamchatka Peninsula in Eastern Russia to the Bering Sea. This region is known for its abundant sockeye salmon population, attracting fishermen from various parts of the world. One can learn more about the unique attributes and historical significance of this salmon species by exploring documentaries or research focused on the sockeye salmon, such as The Breach, a documentary film highlighting the salmon of the Pacific Northwest. However, the most productive area for commercial sockeye salmon fishing is the Kamchatka Peninsula, renowned for its pristine rivers and thriving salmon stocks. Each year, millions of sockeye salmon migrate to the rivers of Kamchatka, making it a crucial and fruitful region for the country's fishing industry. Supporting this prolific and abundant salmon “run” is not only good for the economic viability and environmental future of the fishery, it’s also great for your health. Wild salmon is healthier than farm-raised salmon because it has the right kinds of fats to support brain health while the farm-raised fish is higher in saturated fat, inflammatory omega-6 fatty acids, and calories. It is true that both farmed and wild salmon are lean sources of protein and a good source of omega-3s, but wild-caught salmon has more of the types of fats we consider brain-healthy. The fattier farmed raised salmon fillets also put consumers at risk because of the possible high-levels of PCBs, a man-made chemical. The most obvious detriment to farm-raised salmon is the limited diet of the fish; because they are not eating naturally occurring algae and other organisms lower on the food chain, synthetic carotenoids are often added to their food. Furthermore, the farmed fish are typically raised in crowded net-pens where disease is prevalent, meaning antibiotics and other unnatural additions are also prevalent.
Our mission at Wild Fish Delights is to offer natural, sustainably harvested salmon products of superior quality at a fair price. We are proud to supply fish from the pristine environment that produces one of the world's largest salmon run.
WHEN IS SOCKEYE SALMON SEASON?
This doesn’t mean, however, that the sockeye salmon are abundant on the whole Pacific coast all year long. All types of salmon are anadromous fish, meaning they spend their “adult years” at sea then return to the freshwater upriver to spawn, usually within just meters of where they were first hatched. In Southwest Alaska, the return upriver begins in late May every year. The salmon make the run upriver to spawn in one the five rivers that feed into Bristol Bay. On average, tens of millions sockeye salmon species return to the rivers annually after spending three formative years living, eating and growing out in the wild Pacific Ocean. The fishing fleet harvests these wild-caught salmon mid-June to mid-August in the bay before they reach fresh water, when their fat content is highest. If sockeye salmon were athletes, these wild-caught fish would be meeting our nets in the prime of their career. As soon as the fish are caught in our gillnets, they come aboard and are immediately brought down to a temperature of thirty-two degrees then within mere hours we send them off to be flash-frozen so these pristine, wild-caught salmon can be fresh for you and your table all winter long.
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