The Bristol Bay salmon drift fleet sold more chilled salmon to processors last year than ever before. Bristol Bay is the world’s largest salmon fishery, and is making efforts to sell a larger portion of its catch as fillets, rather than canned. Filling those fresh and frozen orders requires chilling at the point of harvest, which more fishermen are apparently doing.
Audio transcript: The Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association commissions the Northern Economics to survey fish processors in the area each year.
“Every year it goes out to the major processors in the region and we ask questions about the volume of purchases, and we focus on the portion of the raw product purchases that are being chilled,” said study project manager Michelle Humphry.
Last year’s survey showed record setting numbers for chilled salmon.
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