White Fish Sampler (Christmas Catch)

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NOTE: IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PREORDER FROM MULTIPLE SEASONAL CATCHES, PLEASE PLACE THOSE ORDERS SEPARATELY. FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU'D LIKE BOTH THE SUMMER & SPRING CATCH, CREATE YOUR SUMMER ORDER THEN CHECK OUT & PAY. THEN SELECT YOUR SPRING SPECIES, CHECK OUT & PAY.

SHIPS DEC. 9, 2024

My white fish sampler is 5 lbs. of the two best white fish Alaska has to offer (10 lbs total)––moist, sweet, and delicate halibut, and rich, flakey sablefish. If you can't decide whether to get halibut or sablefish, get my white fish sampler and try both.

While the vast majority of halibut available around the country is from large, tough fish, I only keep the smaller fish that are both delicious and a more sustainable size. My halibut is sweet and moist unlike anything you've had before. Many folks have not had sablefish and I take great pleasure in introducing it to them. Why? Because they cannot believe they have never had it before! It's fatty and flakey and its unlike any other white fish you've ever had before!

Preorder Preorder Period:
Jan. 1 - Dec. 1, 2024

Shipping:
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Cut / Bones:
Halibut portions are boneless and skinless and weight about 1 lb each, +/- 0.25 lbs. Sablefish weight about the same, but are bone in and skin on.

Packaging:
I vacuum seal my seafood in heavy 5mm bags and ship to you in foam shipping boxes. Your fresh-frozen seafood will keep in your freezer in pristine condition for at least 12 months.

Who, Where, When, & How:

After commercial fishing Alaska's waters for 25 years, I am starting to focus more on turning out stunning fillets for your dinner table and less on sloshing around in my boat fishing. Although I am sometimes fishing, more often I am jumping on a friend's skiff to get their best fish before. The art and craft of turning out beautiful fillets is more and more where my heart is these days. I call it salmon craft.

When it comes to the white fish I sell, both species, halibut and sablefish, are sourced from friends in Kodiak and Southeast, Alaska. Although I commercially fished halibut for years in my youth, it's something I now leave to my tougher friends.

My smoked salmon comes from a dear friend in Southeast, Alaska who has smoked for me for years. This smoked salmon isn't available anywhere else and is out of this world.

A thing or two about halibut:

• Baby halibut swim vertically in the water column with one eye on each side of their head. As they mature, they settle to the bottom and one eye migrates to the other side of their head. This is called orbital migration. As adults they rest flat on the bottom with both eyes on the top.
• Nearly all halibut have both eyes on the right-hand side of the fish. About 1 in every 20,000 halibut has its eyes on the left side. I got one once and in my overworked delirium, I stopped and stared at it for about 5 minutes before I could proceed with filleting. We call them left handed halibut.

A thing or two about sablefish:

• Salmon are known to eat baby sablefish. Salmon have great taste!
• Sablefish fisheries are managed by both state and federal agencies.