Sea Stories — coho salmon

Salmon is the second most consumed seafood in the US, right between shrimp and canned tuna. You probably know that some of the salmon we eat is wild caught, and others farmed. But what is the difference between farm raised fish vs wild caught fish, and should you care? The answer is yes. You should care very much.   What’s the Difference Between Farm-Raised and Wild-Caught Fish? When you are talking about farm raised vs wild caught, the first thing you should look at is the environment in which they grow up, and the food that they eat. For instance,...

Save Bristol Bay, Stop Pebble Mine Bristol Bay is the lifeblood of Alaska. Home to the world’s largest wild sockeye salmon run, the bay provides tens of thousands of Alaskan jobs and feeds Americans from coast to coast. At Sea to Table, we depend on Bristol Bay for the wild salmon we are proud to provide to our customers. And our Bristol Bay fishermen depend on us to provide a fair price for their catch to support their families and community. But this relationship, and the salmon that sustains it, is facing an existential threat from the Pebble Mine project....

The Cold Never Bothered Us Anyway Let’s just stop with frozen fish snobbery. Frozen food suffers from the stigma of the highly processed...the hot pockets, the pizza rolls...and it’s hard to shake a reputation like that. But Foodies should think twice about bypassing the freezer when looking for the freshest and tastiest fish. Let it go and embrace flash freezing for the almost perfect preservation method it is. From taste to nutrition to responsibility, frozen wins. Taste & Quality: With 95% of all seafood consumed in the US being imported, “Fresh” May not be as fresh as you think… especially...

We get a lot of questions about fish. How to cook it, how to thaw it, how to store it.  Sometimes we get questions about fishing. Like, what the heck does trawl-caught mean? Maybe you read an article about fish and have questions. Perhaps you heard something and are wondering if it’s true. Maybe your fish skin turns out soggy, not perfectly crispy. The point is, we all have questions about fish but no forum to ask them. Until now. We are pleased to announce our new regular series where we answer all your searing questions about fish, from the...