Storage:

If you don't already own a chest freezer, we'd highly recommend investing in one! Standard next-to-the-fridge freezers don't go quite as cold, are often "frost-free", and generally get opened and closed a lot. Maintaining a stable, cold (-10ºF or colder) temperature is going to extend the shelf life and flavor of your frozen fish! 

A note on freezers: Many upright freezers are advertised as "frost free". It's great to not have frost build up, BUT the trade off is that frost free freezers go through automatic, periodic defrosts -- warming the coils, and warming the product sitting on top of the coils (your fish)! If you're shopping for a new freezer, we'd recommend either chest freezer, or an upright style that is not frost free.

Thawing

Slow and steady wins the thawing race. The slower your fish thaws, the closer to fresh it will taste!

The best thawing choice is:

Allow your fish to thaw under refrigeration (i.e. in the fridge, overnight). In a pinch, we'll toss a sealed package of frozen fish in a bowl of cold water. This accelerates the thawing process without compromising flavor.

Second thawing choice is:

Toss your sealed package of fish in a bowl of cold water. It will thaw in 30 minutes to an hour, without compromising flavor

Never should you ever:

Thaw under hot or warm water! It will result in mushy, and unpleasantly fishy-fish.

As long as your package is sealed nice and tight, your fish will be good for up to a year! That timeline can be pushed if your seafood is stored in a dedicated chest freezer (one that's not frost free), or will be shortened if it's stored in a traditional next-to-the-fridge household freezer. These aren't quite as cold as standalone freezer units.

It's not dangerous to hold frozen fish for longer than the recommended timeframe, but it will compromise flavor eventually.

If your vacuum sealed portion is punctured, then you'll want to eat your fish right away! Food safety-wise, it will be perfectly safe to eat. But flavor-wise, it will begin to taste quite fishy if the seal is broken, and the fish becomes freezer burnt.

We harvest all our seafood ourselves, aboard our 52' boat based in Sitka, Alaska! We are fisherman that sell our catch, not fish brokers or buyer-resellers.

YES! All our fish is wild caught in the cold, clean waters of Southeast Alaska.

Yes, all our fish is safe for raw (or undercooked) consumption!

When we're talking raw fish consumption, parasites are the primary concern. Yes, wild fish does have parasites; we want to destruct them before consuming our fish.

We accomplish this by freezing our fish.

Per FDA guidelines, to be considered safe for raw consumption, fish must be frozen soluid and then stored at:

1. -4ºF or below for 7 days

or

2. -31ºF or below for 15 hours

Our blast freezer runs at a cool -40ºF; without taking windchill into account! And your fish are stored at that temperature for days to weeks - so our fish are far and beyond the minimum requirements for raw seafood consumption.

All our fish is harvested in Southeast Alaska, aboard our 52' boat. The details vary for each species!

• Spot Prawns: Our spot prawns are harvested in May, in the shrimp pot fishery. We run 140 pots between the hours of 8 am - 4 pm, every day until our district closes.
• Salmon: Our salmon are harvested in July, August, and September in the Southeast Alaska Power Troll fishery. Our salmon are individually harvest by hook and line, out in the open ocean. Our lines are reeled hydraulically, and we run between 5 - 20 hooks on each line. We are allowed to tow 4 - 6 lines.
• Sablefish (Black Cod): Our sablefish are harvested in pots, similar to in the pot shrimp fishery. Pots are strung along the seafloor, like charms on a charm bracelet. Pots are hauled once each day: mature fish are retained, and immature fish can be returned safely to the ocean.
• Lingcod + Rockfish: Our lingcod are harvested in a small boat fishery called "dinglebaring". It is a simlar process to power trolling (how we harvest our salmon), except that we only drag one line, instead of four.

We harvest:

• King Salmon
• Coho Salmon
• Sablefish (aka Black Cod)
• Spot Prawns
• Lingcod
• Rockfish

Since all our fish is harvested ourselves, at this time we don't offer additional seafood products and species

Our frozen fish is conveniently packed individually vacuum sealed, ready to eat portions. Salmon, sablefish, and lingcod portions are 8 oz (a half pound) each; rockfish come in whole side fillets, that vary from 0.4 - 1 lb each.

Our spot prawns are block frozen in a net 1 lb case. Rather than packing them as loose, individually frozen shrimp, we've found that block freezing greatly increases the shelf life, and preserves flavor and texture.

It depends!

Salmon: Our salmon (coho, and king) is skin on, and pin bone in. Collar and middle section cuts will have a line of small, thin pin bones running the length of them; tail sections are naturally boneless.

Sablefish (Black Cod): Our sablefish portions are skin on, and boneless. We remove the bones by a process called "v-cutting" - this means the bones are removed by manually cutting out a thin section of mean along the length of the fillet. So if you notice a "gap" in the middle of your portion, that is why.

Lingcod + Rockfish: Our lingcod and rockfish are brought to you in skinless, boneless portions!

Pre-orders open May 15th!

The schedule varies a little every year; but our goal is always to begin distributing pre-orders the second weekend of November. This is the soonest possible date as our fish does not arrive in Idaho until the last week of October, or first week of November.

In 2025, we are hosting Idaho pickups in: Boise, Eagle, Nampa, McCall (with stops in Council and Cascade), Sun Valley (Hailey), and Twin Falls.

You will make a 50% payment to reserve your box. New this year: Our website will hold your card info, and we will automatically run your card for the remaining balance on November 3rd (first Monday in November).

We will send out multiple reminder emails before running your card for the balance, in case you need to make any updates or changes.

Yes! We can ship via UPS ground to the western US or Alaska Air Cargo. If you live outside of our UPS ground range, OR have larger order, Alaska Air Cargo may be the best option.

If you plan to eat fish twice a month for a year, our suggestion is:

10 lbs for a family of 1

25 lbs or a family of 2

50 lbs for a family of 4

75 lbs for a family of 6

100 lbs for a family of 8

If you plan to eat fish once per week, double the poundage for each family size. Estimate is based on an 8 oz per person serving size.