Sugar Free Smoked Salmon!

Wild Ocean Seafoods® introduces Sugar Free Smoked Salmon! Our families have been producing Alder Smoked Salmon in the Traditional Recipe for over 50 years.

In the fall of 2006, our friend Uncle Al began offering his Sugar Free Salmon Jerky exclusively thru our Web Sites. It has been quite a hit with many of our customers! Our friends at Nutriblend contacted us a few months ago inquiring about a Sugar Free Smoked Salmon product. After several months of testing recipes in small daily batches, we have developed several outstanding Sugar Free Smoked Salmon products using Wild King, Sockeye & Pacific Steelhead Salmon.

Our Sugar Free Smoked Salmon is sweetened with Sucralose, an artificial sweetener most commonly used in many products under the Splenda® brand name. Sucralose is approximately 600 times sweeter than regular table sugar. We do not have bulking additives of Splenda® in our Sucralose. It is used in the smoked salmon brine replacing our Turbinado Cane Sugar. Very little Suclarose is added to the brine. For example, to obtain the same “sweetness”, 5lbs of Turbinado Cane Sugar has the Sucraose equivalent of about 1.4 ounces.

Our first Sugar Free Smoked Salmon products are Wild Smoked Pacific Steelhead & Sockeye Salmon Tail Fillets, Sugar Free Smoked Salmon Strips, & Wild Pacific Steelhead Body Fillets. We expect these to be in stock & available for regular purchase March 1st. (You may see them earlier in our ProStore & Gourmet Food Mall Online Stores).

Better Salmon = Better Smoked Salmon! We do not use lower oil content Salmon species (Chum, Pink, Coho) or farmed salmon of any kind in our Smoked Salmon Products.

It is/was Dungeness Crab Season

This has been an interesting fall/winter Dungeness Crab season!

In hind site, the writing was on the wall as the Alaska Dungeness Crab fishery whimpered to a close with a 37% drop in landings when compared to last year. The west coast Dungeness Crab fisheries started off mired in pricing controversies, with attempts by major processors to force the price downwards from the previous year.

Demand is up significantly and supply is far below projections as the year begins. Cash buyers have bid up Dungeness Crab ex-boat prices to nearly double the original processor settement offer.

The coastal crab seasons in WA, OR & CA began with terrible weather, forcing the fleet to the docks for almost 3 weeks. The weather has improved, but the Dungeness Crab landings have not. Several of our neighbors are returning from the coastal crab fishery as soon as their bait supply is depleted.

Looking forward thru April, Dungeness Crab will be very hard to come by and quite expensive.

We are reserving our available Dungeness Crab supplies for our retail customers. You can check out our inventory at our ProStore or the Gourmet Food Mall.