Alsek Fish

06/25/2025

PSA from The Alsek Fish crew

ATTN: Alaska Airlines Alaska Airlines - Seattle-Tacoma Int'l Airport SEA ALASKA AIR CARGO SEATTLE

We are experiencing significant issues with the transportation of our fresh salmon shipments from Seattle to their final destinations, such as Boise. These delays and losses are severely impacting our small business, which relies on these direct-to-market sales, as do the restaurant owners who depend on our product.

For example, last week, two shipments weighing less than 100 lbs each were sent from Seattle to Boise. They left Yakutat on time last Tuesday. One shipment consisted of two boxes, and the other was a single box. Only one of the two-box shipments reached Boise; the other was lost for five days. The single-box shipment didn't arrive until Friday. It seems the issue is that the connecting flight from Seattle to Boise, on which our product is booked, consistently fails to make the scheduled departure.

This week, we shipped 64 lbs of fresh sockeye out of Yakutat yesterday, Tuesday, June 24th. This shipment was not loaded onto its scheduled flight this morning, and despite multiple calls to your customer service agents, who have submitted rebooking requests, it remains unbooked.

As we are four weeks into our 8 week fishing season, these small market shipments are crucial to our livelihood. Our business, which has been processing and shipping salmon from Yakutat throughout June and July since 2004, deeply values the partnership we've built, enabling us to deliver this delicate resource across the United States. However, the past four weeks have been incredibly frustrating, with our product frequently lost or delayed to the point of being on the verge of too much transit time.

We kindly request your urgent attention to resolve whatever is causing these disruptions in Seattle. It is imperative that we prevent the loss of customers we have worked a lifetime to build and maintain.

It is to be noted that we have called and emailed and are now taking to social media so that they can get all hands on deck and get this figured out.

I am going to attach a photo we just received from our freight forwarder in Seattle. This is completely unacceptable and it is not the norm. Never have we received notice of a box damaged. we sent this box out last night!! from Yakutat to Seattle.

This is a box of ALSEK KING

06/23/2025

Waterfront Seafood Market in Des Moines Iowa has the best sockeye from the Alsek River!

06/08/2025

Heyyyyy friends! Update from the Alsek fish crew.
The Alsek River is open for the season and we are here and stoked for it! Starting our second fishing opener tomorrow at noon.

— we’ve got a bit of bad weather today and into tomorrow that might slow up our catching this week but as true fishermen are, we are hopeful we won’t get skunked! (For our non fishermen friends skunked means we catch zilch, nada, zero.)

We’ve got a pile of pre orders to sort through… if you haven’t gotten your pre order in yet you still have time!

If you want to order FRESH never frozen sockeye or king salmon you can send us an email or dm and we’ll get you on the list.

Thanks for your continued support for our small family fishery. 🫶🏻

06/02/2025

Here we Go!! First fishing opener for 2025. This is my dad’s 53rd summer commercial fishing in DryBay… Here he is with 3 of his grandkids 11,9, and 6 holding up the infamous alsek king salmon… they appear dark and what a fisherman would call “turned” but that’s the special genetic trait only to this special river.

The darkness on the outside is a sign of an alsek king… if you’re lucky enough to taste one you’ll surely taste the difference.

11/12/2024

We are back from Alaska and in the treasure valley! Brandt and I are not doing any markets before Christmas so if you are wanting salmon we would be happy to deliver or meet up!

Boise deliveries are happening THIS Friday.

Let us know if you’d like on the delivery schedule.

All our best,
Brandt, Kaytlynn + the kids

06/23/2024

It’s week 4 of fishing on the Alsek River! The sockeye were big, bright, and beautiful last week. Here is to another week of catching.

Fresh orders are being shipped Monday and Tuesday this week.

06/23/2024

Hey Treasure Valley friends!

One of our favorite downtown Boise restaurants gets weekly deliveries of our fresh caught king and sockeye salmon!

We ship direct to the chef weekly right now … it can’t get more fresh than that!

Weekend Feature with !

Fresh Caught Alsek Alaskan King Salmon with toasted lemon herb orzo, sweet pepper chutney, and arugula/ English pea puree. This feature is available now through the weekend. Cheers!

02/25/2024

It won’t be long and we’ll be back on the Alsek River catching, processing, and shipping fresh salmon!

02/13/2024

Greetings! Salmon lovers unite! If you've purchased from us before, would you take a minute to share your thoughts? Your feedback helps keep us flying high in the seafood game!
The one guy who left us the same “don’t recommend” review twice is bringing us down. He was a fish buyer in drybay at one time and must have been having a bad day. 😂

02/13/2024

✨story time.

We don’t catch a lot of king salmon on the Alsek river for a few reasons. 1.we don’t fish a gear size that targets king salmon 2.we get 24 hrs a week to fish 3.There just aren’t that many to begin with.

With that said we get pretty excited to catch a few every season. Both kids and parents anticipation is high when we see one of these beautiful fish hit the cork line (yes you can tell the difference).

On this particular day we caught more then average on king salmon and everyone was excited. It was sunny and warm, we had a beach hot dog roast for lunch, our tub in the boat was getting full quicker then average and everyone was smiling.

Finn helped bring this king salmon over the rail and we let him gill bleed it. He BEGGED us to keep this one, he kept telling us that he wanted to eat it. He’s 4 in this photo and like most 4 year olds their ideas come out of nowhere and their often forgotten in a few hours. Brandt and I explained to him, like we have to all the kids, that we catch these salmon to sell for profit So that we can keep fishing and so that someone else can enjoy eating a king salmon too.

Apparently what we thought could be forgotten, and forgiven has not been forgotten or forgiven. Since this day Finn has brought up this king salmon a handful of times and it’s always with the saddest expressions. His voice gets quiet and his face turns down and he’ll say something like “man, I wish we didn’t have to sell my best king salmon.” And we have to respond back with “just think how awesome it will be to try and catch another one.”

So if you’ve purchased king salmon from us this year chances are that you could have gotten a piece of Finns special king salmon and now you know the story behind the fish…. And the family ❤️