Alaska Crab Boats For Sale

Salmon wholesale prices mostly good to fair

In its Annual Salmon Price Report (ASPR) the state Revenue Department/Tax Division provides average wholesale prices for salmon as it sells throughout the year. The report is broken down by Alaska region and covers six product forms: canned, fresh/frozen whole, fresh/frozen fillets and roe. The reports are compiled from prices submitted by processors that sold at least one million pounds at wholesale. The ASPR covering sales from January through April show that prices were up substantially in almost every salmon category By far, most of Alaska’s salmon pack goes out as H&G frozen, and Chinook averaged $4.12/lb, compared to $3.31 last year. Frozen sockeye averaged $3, an increase of 17 cents per pound. For chums, an average of $1.78 is an increase of 41 cents. No frozen pink sales were listed through April; in 2010 the pink average was 91 cents a pound. The only decrease in frozen H&G salmon was coho salmon, which averaged $2.37, down from $2.49 during the same time in 2010. Frozen salmon fillets also showed nice price increases through April, with Chinook fillets fetching $8.75 a pound, up from $2.40. Sockeye fillets wholesaled at $6.29, compared to $5.18. Cohos averaged $5.13 a pound, up from $4.61; Pink fillets were at $2.69 a pound, and frozen chum fillets averaged $3.34, an increase of 91 cents from the same time last year. Canned salmon, which make up the second largest part of the annual pack, also showed strong price gains. For cases of ‘talls’ (14.75oz, 48 cans), canned sockeye averaged $144.88, up from $113.64; canned pinks were at $78.60, compared to $77.81; canned chum salmon averaged $66.27per case, compared to $55.60 last year. Sales of canned coho salmon also made the 2011 list, averaging $89.66 per case. Some of the biggest wholesale price increases through April were for salmon roe. Sockeye roe was listed at $7.01 per pound, compared to $2.07 for the same time last year. Coho roe averaged $6.87, up from $4.87/lb. The price for pink salmon roe nearly tripled at $9.94, compared to $3.78 last year. Chum roe jumped to $13.62 per pound, up from $10.50. “It doesn’t make sense,” posted an anonymous seafood importer. “The U.S. government seizes (allegedly) illegally caught king crab and then puts it up for auction for the marketplace …worldwide. And that means, it seems to me, that our government is a participant to the sale of contraband ‘downstream’ to food businesses and thereafter to the consumers?” Industry veteran Robert George said the crab should be donated to “food banks, charities and people who suffered disasters the past few months.” He added: “So now our government is getting into the seafood business,” posted. “How can they seize illegal crab from Russia and then sell it in the U.S.? I think the entire U.S. seafood industry, especially the Alaskan crab industry, should be outraged!!” Jim Stone, a longtime Bering Sea crab fisherman, called the government auction “lunacy,” adding: “This crab has a value close to 2.5% of the US king crab catch, and now our product must compete with seized crab? We applaud the US and other governments for the crackdowns on IUU (illegal, unregulated, unreported) crab and other fisheries, but to see it sold after confiscation seems like a counter-productive way to help the negative effects on our crab market.

Popular Mechanics

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Pacific fisherman

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National fisherman

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Science

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