http://www.seafoodblog.net Exploring the world of seafood Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:26:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When I was younger, and just getting FishEx started, I worked as a deckhand on crab boats fishing on Alaska’s [caption id="attachment_334" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Note the royal blue highlights on the shell of this Saint Matthew blue king crab."][/caption] Bering Sea. I fished for blue king crab around St. Matthew Island back ... http://www.seafoodblog.net/?p=326 [caption id="attachment_323" align="alignright" width="324" caption="Tonight's dinner!"][/caption] We received our first shipment of fresh snow crab (opilio) in from Trident's Saint Paul plant today.  With Valentine's Day this weekend, coordinating this fresh shipment was a bit of a "nail-biter" for me.  There is only one freight plane leaving the island on Wednesdays- ... http://www.seafoodblog.net/?p=316 In October '07 I took a crab-buying trip to the Trident Seafoods processing facility on Saint Paul Island.  It is the world's largest crab production facility.  The efficiency of the plant was amazing, and I took a lot of pictures.  I wanted to show our customers how the fresh (& frozen) king ... http://www.seafoodblog.net/?p=304 [caption id="attachment_142" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="The fishing grounds."][/caption] I received word yesterday that it took fishermen a couple of days to get "on the crab", but the harvest of Alaska king crab is now proceeding at a good rate.  The Trident Seafoods plants at Akutan and Saint Paul are expecting their first ... http://www.seafoodblog.net/?p=179 King crab season opened on October 15th.  Technically, there are several king crab seasons here in Alaska, but "Bristol Bay" is the big one.  The target species is red king crab, which is the regarded among connoisseurs as the best of the 3 commercially-harvested species in Alaska. The quota for 2008 ... http://www.seafoodblog.net/?p=33 Welcome to my blog. http://www.seafoodblog.net/?p=1