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… packs (blue ice) are added to keep the fish as cold as possi- ble. The boxes are sealed, placed on a palette, shrink wrapped in plastic, placed on a waiting truck and rushed to the Cordova airport to…
… waiting Air Alaska cargo planes. This controlled frenzy goes on all night and continues into the next day. "Later that evening I strolled through the local fishing village. The smell of sweet alder wood…
…-hour opening day's catch — 1.2 million pounds of Sockeye and 161,000 pounds of King Salmon. The fishermen had one day to rest and the second opening would begin for 24 hours and close again so the salmon…
… could escape and go up river to spawn. "My adventure came to an end and it was time to fly home. On the long plane ride back to Detroit, my mind was working overtime developing recipes to showcase during…
… spectacular fish." (The Copper River SalmOn promo- tion is at all Chuck Muer restaurants until June 26.) IT WAS SUPPOSED to rain, inclement weather was forecast for the area ... At least that's what the local…
… meteorologists said. So the folks who run the Hilton Novi, on Haggerty, just north of Eight Mile Road, had a huge tent set outside off the indoor pool sector for its recent kickoff of "Tunes on the Terrace…
… Seafood Heaven." "America's TableTop Award" Molly Abraham, Oakland Press Gourmet Magazine "Being a top seafood dining spot for so many years, as well as one of the prettiest, has not gone unnoticed by…
… the customers." Danny Raskin / Jewish News "Charley's Crab has been given a half-million dollar face-lift, the menu has been overhauled and is truly re-born as what it started out to be: a first…
…Our thanks to the packed into 15-pound boxes and whisked off to a waiting truck for immediate air shipment to Japan. "Meanwhile, the fish are rinsed again, and packed into 50-pound boxes. Frozen gel…
… smoke filled the air. I followed my nose and soon arrived at the source of the aroma, three charcoal grills blowing alder smoke and manned by commercial fishermen cooking the season's first Copper River…

















































