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Alaskan
Wild Salmon Species
The five
species of Alaska salmon are members of a large family of fish
known as salmonidae which are abundant throughout the temperate
zones of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Salmon and their
salmonidae relatives, which include Atlantic salmon, are active
and aggressive predators who demand the high levels of oxygen most
commonly found in cold, rushing streams, estuaries, and the upper
levels of
the
ocean.
Robust, renewable and dynamic, the wild salmon supply is carefully
managed and has the benefits of many years of scientific advances.
World famous, the Alaska wild salmon run is truly a
natural wonder. Lucky for you, the consumer, the
Alaskan wild salmon market
is an industry we can count on to feed us and continue to astonish
us with it's beauty and mystery far into the future. Recent
discoveries of the health benefits confirm what many have known
for years ... Alaska wild salmon is a healthy way to enjoy gourmet
food. See our Wild Salmon diet information.
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Many health
conscious consumers have added wild salmon to there diets, and the
nutritional information speaks for itself. Read about the benefits
that natural run Alaskan wild salmon contain, including the
recorded levels of Omega 3 oils, the heart healthy wonder found in
high concentration inside
Alaskan King Salmon.
With science
learning more every day about our ecosystem, it is obvious that it
is in everyone's' best interest to enforce strict resource
management. The Alaskan Seafood Industry has taken care of many
more people than those who populate the state of Alaska. This
natural resource not only creates valuable jobs from Alaska to
Florida, it is fast becoming the hottest destination in tourism.
From whale watching to salmon fishing trips, the Alaskan salmon
run is a vital part of the regions AND the nations economy,
culture & future.
Alaska
salmon is a healthy way to enjoy the holidays. After you look at
some of our fabulous NEW Wild Salmon Recipes, find out how to buy
seafood gifts online. Alaska run salmon is the best you can buy,
so send the gift of health with wild salmon gifts & wild alaska
seafood gifts shipped direct from the producers in the heart of
the Seafood capital of Alaska ... from the Kenai Peninsula, out to
Kodiak, and deep into the rugged Alaskan Copper River, Alaskan
Seafood is clean, healthy & timeless.
The icy cold, clean
waters off the Alaskan Pacific ocean coastline are the
world's greatest resource for natural, wild salmon. There are five
species of Alaska Salmon that run to mature in an unmatched
natural environment that provides them with superior flavor,
color, and texture. This makes Alaska Salmon the salmon of choice
of chefs and connoisseurs around the world. Quick frozen within
hours of being harvested at the peak of its lifecycle, Alaska
Salmon is the source for unmatched benefits for culinary
excellence.
NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION
Natural Alaska Salmon
is an excellent source of high quality protein, and contains
predominantly healthy unsaturated fats.
Serving size: 3oz. (85 grams) BCooked, Edible Portion
| |
King |
Sockeye |
Silver |
Pink |
Chum |
|
Calories |
200 |
180 |
160 |
130 |
130 |
|
Protein (g) |
21 |
23 |
23 |
22 |
22 |
|
Fat (g) |
11.5 |
9 |
7 |
4 |
4 |
|
Carbohydrate (g) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Sodium (mg) |
50 |
50 |
50 |
75 |
50 |
|
Potassium (mg) |
360 |
410 |
470 |
350 |
450 |
|
Cholesterol (mg) |
70 |
60 |
40 |
55 |
80 |
Alaskan Wild Salmon
is an excellent source of high quality protein, and contains
predominantly healthy unsaturated fats.
There are
five species of Alaskan wild salmon: King, Sockeye, Coho, Pink &
Keta. These five species of Alaska salmon are members of a large
family of fish known as salmonidae which are abundant throughout
the temperate zones of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
Salmon and their salmonidae relatives, which include Atlantic
salmon, are active and aggressive predators who demand the high
levels of oxygen most commonly found in cold, rushing streams,
estuaries, and the upper levels of the ocean.
Pacific
salmon occur from California north along the Pacific coast
throughout the Pacific Ocean, Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean waters
adjacent to Alaska. Alaska’s wild salmon resource is the greatest
in the world. |
Alaska salmon
are anadromous, that is, they spawn in fresh water and the young
migrate to the sea where they mature. The timing of spawning and
migration varies among the five wild salmon, but they all need abundant,
pure, fresh water for spawning. The fresh water that attracts the
maturing salmon from the ocean vastness to the interior of the
continent to spawn also draws the salmon to man’s doorstep.
Although the
spawning characteristics of each of the five species of
Alaskan
Wild Salmon differ, each maintains the same timing year after
year, and, with few exceptions, the mature adults return to the stream
of their birth.
Salmon which
will spawn in the headwaters of a river or lake system (king, coho and
sockeye), arrive earlier than do the pink and chum which spawn closer
to tidewater. Because salmon do not eat after they have entered fresh
water, they leave the ocean heavy with the fats and nutrients on which
they will subsist during their freshwater phase. The longer and more
rigorous the freshwater trip, the more fat the fish will carry as he
leaves the ocean. A Yukon River king headed for spawning grounds 2,400
miles (4,000 kilometers) away and 2,200 feet (670 meters) above sea
level near Lake Teslin will enter the river an unusually rich,
vigorous fish.
How salmon
return so unerringly from mid-ocean to a stream which may be only a
trickle hundreds of miles from tidewater is not fully understood by
biologists. Except where humans have interfered, however, the salmon
returning to the various river systems and streams of Alaska are
unique species which may mingle in the ocean and even in the estuary,
but return faithfully to the gravel from which they emerged two to six
years earlier. Fish that enter fresh water early in the season are
more brightly colored than those that arrive later, but all salmon
turn darker as the time to spawn approaches. Pronounced morphological
changes take place, particularly in the spawning male. The female
selects a suitable patch of gravel, and excavates the nest. When she
is ready, she allows the male to fertilize her eggs as she deposits
them in the gravel.
Five to seven
months after spawning, the young salmon fry emerge from the gravel
where the spawning pair deposited and fertilized the eggs the fall
before. Some of the fry will go to sea almost immediately, while
others, such as sockeye, king and coho will remain in streams and
lakes for a year or more. When the fry migrate toward the sea, they
undergo certain changes which prepare them for life in salt water;
during this stage of life they are called smolts. In the estuary,
where salt and fresh water mix and food is abundant, a smolt may
double or even triple its weight before venturing westward into the
Gulf of Alaska or Bering Sea. Depending on the species, the salmon may
go within a few miles of the Kamchatka Peninsula which extends
southward from Siberia toward the western tip of the Aleutian Islands.
Growth rates in
the ocean are no less astonishing than those in the estuary. A
two-inch pink salmon which leaves the estuary and moves offshore in
early-to-mid summer can return slightly more than a year later as a
two-foot, five-pound adult. Pink salmon spend a year in ocean waters;
other species may spend four, five or even six years in the ocean
pastures growing to prodigious size. Any "125 pound plus" king salmon landed in
Southeastern Alaska is thought to have spent seven years in the ocean.
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More information on our gourmet seafood products can be found at
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information regarding the health benefits of Wild Alaskan Salmon, see the
wild salmon report from the
Environmental Working
Group.
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