Sorry to bust your bubble, but these are not hatchery fish. They are wild salmon. They are held in the pens for a short period, no more than 7 days, but usually 2 or 3 days after capture and before processing.
So you explain what you do after you catch them, but what about before you catch them? Can you guarantee these salmon were not born in a hatchery? (not there's anything wrong with that, but it would be false advertising, cause hatchery born salmon ain't wild).
I used my purse seine boat to catch them. Instead of rolling them aboard we swim them into the pens until we have about 20,000 pounds then we process them and send them in to be shipped.
You may want to look into the uplift system to get the fish to the stunner. Your meat tecture would be much better. I have done both and will not go back to brailing
You can not tell me your rivers have not been diluted by a yearly dump of 2 billion hatchey salmon into the pacific. The Alaskan seafood industry reportedly dumps 1.5 million metric tonnes of untreated fish waste into the ocean every year. In contrast, fish waste from processing farmed salmon is used to make fish-based fertilizer.
These salmon are WILD SALMON. They were not raised in pens and fed pellets. The roam 2500 miles in the Gulf of Alaska gyre eating wild food, mainly small shrimp, avoiding predators, then return to the stream that they came from.
Once again guys, I harvest WILD SALMON.
You should cook one up to taste the difference. I know because from time to time I taste a farmed atlantic just to remind myself of how good these fish actually are!
50% of your so called wild are hatchery raised. Fed pellets and released into the pacific. Your harvisting methods are the same as farmed raised salmon. South of your border it would be escapement if we releasrd them.
OK, so you guys hatchery raise 'em, hold them in net pens and feed them pellets. Then you let them go for a while. Then you catch 'em and then stun and bleed them. Congratulations boys, you are farming! I support you, but just wanted to call it what it is - FARMING. Search in Youtube for 'Alaska salmon farming' and see what pops up!
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AlaskaRanchedSalmon 3 years ago
Sorry to bust your bubble, but these are not hatchery fish. They are wild salmon. They are held in the pens for a short period, no more than 7 days, but usually 2 or 3 days after capture and before processing.
wildsalmondirect 3 years ago
So you explain what you do after you catch them, but what about before you catch them? Can you guarantee these salmon were not born in a hatchery? (not there's anything wrong with that, but it would be false advertising, cause hatchery born salmon ain't wild).
Do you otilith test each salmon?
AlaskaRanchedSalmon 3 years ago 7
Wild fish aren't held in pens they swim free and are caught in nets or on hooks. What a joke
TheMyfancypants 2 years ago
if they are wild and not net caught where did you get them from to put them in the farm pens? European type handling?? Smacks of farming to me !!
TheMyfancypants 2 years ago
So your not telling how thye were caught ??
TheMyfancypants 2 years ago
I used my purse seine boat to catch them. Instead of rolling them aboard we swim them into the pens until we have about 20,000 pounds then we process them and send them in to be shipped.
wildsalmondirect 2 years ago
Are they STARVED while they are in net pens? For how many days. If so, this is not natural for WILD salmon.
Folkboat11 3 years ago 3
You may want to look into the uplift system to get the fish to the stunner. Your meat tecture would be much better. I have done both and will not go back to brailing
Folkboat11 4 years ago 5
You can not tell me your rivers have not been diluted by a yearly dump of 2 billion hatchey salmon into the pacific. The Alaskan seafood industry reportedly dumps 1.5 million metric tonnes of untreated fish waste into the ocean every year. In contrast, fish waste from processing farmed salmon is used to make fish-based fertilizer.
Folkboat11 4 years ago 2
These salmon are WILD SALMON. They were not raised in pens and fed pellets. The roam 2500 miles in the Gulf of Alaska gyre eating wild food, mainly small shrimp, avoiding predators, then return to the stream that they came from.
Once again guys, I harvest WILD SALMON.
You should cook one up to taste the difference. I know because from time to time I taste a farmed atlantic just to remind myself of how good these fish actually are!
wildsalmondirect 4 years ago
How can your farmed salmon avoid predators? I can only laugh at that comment.
Folkboat11 4 years ago 3
50% of your so called wild are hatchery raised. Fed pellets and released into the pacific. Your harvisting methods are the same as farmed raised salmon. South of your border it would be escapement if we releasrd them.
Folkboat11 4 years ago 3
OK, so you guys hatchery raise 'em, hold them in net pens and feed them pellets. Then you let them go for a while. Then you catch 'em and then stun and bleed them. Congratulations boys, you are farming! I support you, but just wanted to call it what it is - FARMING. Search in Youtube for 'Alaska salmon farming' and see what pops up!
schmarly2007 4 years ago