From the Anchorage Daily News...SEATTLE — The first Copper River salmon from Alaska have arrived in Seattle.
The captain and first officer of the Alaska Air Cargo plane from Cordova emerged Friday morning carrying a 48-pound king salmon. They carried it down a red carpet and delivered it to three chefs for a ceremonial cook-off at Sea-Tac Airport.
The plane carried 27,500 pounds of salmon that were caught Thursday when the commercial gillnet season opened in Prince William Sound.
This is the first shipment of the prized salmon this year headed for restaurants and grocery stores, and the event is celebrated by Alaska Airlines as a rite of spring.
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game estimates the seasonal harvest at 1.6 million Copper River sockeyes, 22,000 kings and 280,000 pinks.
Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2014/05/15/3471874/copper-river-salmon-season-opens.html?sp=/99/171//#storylink=cpy
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