Copper River Silver Salmon portions are marbled with layers of fat and oil. These rare and delicious Copper River Salmon have firm flesh with a wonderful mild taste. These are premium quality salmon, harvested by family fishermen, and protected for long term sustainability. Our Copper River Silver Salmon are fresh, flash frozen, and vacuum packed. Copper River Silver portions will range between 4 to 10 ounces.

This Special includes:

5 lbs of Copper River Silver Salmon

Shipping included

These are the following 4 options:

1. Pin Bone In (PBI) Portions

2. Pin Bone In (PBI) Prime Center Cut Portions

3. Pin Bone Out (PBO) Portions

4. Pin Bone Out (PBO) Prime Center Cut Portions

Tell me more about this Copper River Salmon I've heard so much about.  It's not surprising why Copper River Salmon have been touted as the "Rolls Royce of Salmon" with a flavor that is second to none. Besides being simply delicious, Copper River Salmon are full of Omega 3 fatty acids which is what gives them their defined flavor profile. Considered by many as the most premium wild salmon available, Copper River Salmon are famous/ known for this fat content which is needed for them to swim almost 300 miles up the Copper River. 

What makes some wild salmon have more fat than others?  Wild Salmon fat content is typically dictated by the length of the river the salmon must swim up; the longer the river, the more fat reserves the salmon must have to make their way up it. What makes the Copper River so special is that it is both a long river and extremely fast moving one. The Copper River flows at an average of 7 miles an hour, which is about 6 times faster than the speed at the mouth of the Mississippi River. Due to this turbulent current, Copper River Salmon must have even higher fat reserves to travel up river than they would a normal flowing one. The Copper River's faster current speeds can be attributed to it's almost 3/4 mile vertical elevation (3,600 ft) drop through the Wrangell and Chugach Mountain Ranges. 

Benefits to eating Wild over farmed raised salmon.   DHA comes from salmon, which is a beneficial source of nutrition for the human brain. Essentially, Omega 3's are good for you and Omega 6's aren't. Although farm raised salmon can have higher levels of fats than Wild Salmon, farm raised salmon do not have the same health benefits. Because the farm raised salmon are fed pellets full of things that aren't good for you like vegetable oil and grains, essentially any of the beneficial Omega 3's in farmed salmon are outweighed by the negative effects of Omega 6's, which come from their man fed diets. In fact, it can take up to 3 times as much fish feed to make up the weight in a farmed salmon.

DHA comes from phytoplankton which wild salmon get in the open ocean and farmed salmon don't. A wild salmon's diet is composed of wild seafood like plankton, shrimp, small baitfish, krill, and other small crustaceans; all foods that are good for you to eat as well. Salmon eat this food in order to grow and put fat reserves away for their long journey up the rivers where they were born to the place that they were hatched from eggs. Farm salmon essentially swim in small cages, just getting fat, almost lethargic like, until they are harvested. The pigment color of the meat in salmon is from a carotenoid called astaxanthin. Naturally occurring astaxanthin (like in wild seafood) has numerous health benefits aiding in the prevention of diseases, aging, and inflammation. Farmed salmon are typically given a synthetic version of astaxanthin to dye the color of the flesh; otherwise, a farmed salmon meat would be a brown color without being dyed.