How to Prepare Alaska Salmon for Christmas

Since it’s the season to give, we thought we’d share with you our favorite Alaska salmon recipe.  This is the best recipe for readying Alaska salmon for your Christmas dinner, but it’s probably not what you think…

Step #1 – pour 100 salmon eggs into a large plastic tray. Culture for about 2 months.

Step #2 - after the eggs hatch, add a pinch of commercially available fish feed. This diet will contain beta-carotenes that are healthy for the baby salmon and also turn the flesh a nice red colour. Continue this process for another 3 months.

Step #3 –  when the baby salmon are large enough and feeding well, move them carefully from the freshwater hatcheries to the saltwater fish farms to continue growing. Be careful not to spill.

Step #4 – add more fish feed and continue growing the salmon in net pens for 2 to 12 months. If your salmon doesn’t feel well, order some drugs to make it feel better (don’t worry, that happens a lot in Alaska). Hint : the longer and larger you can grow your salmon, the better chance it has to out-compete wild salmon.

Step #5 – let your salmon go. It may die, but that’s OK, cause there are 99 more right behind it. And don’t worry about the fact that your salmon is eating fish in the ocean not meant for it or that your salmon may hump other wild salmon and eradicate them – it happens all the time in Alaska – it’s called ocean ranching.

Step #6 – when your salmon returns a few years later, catch it, tell your dinner guests it’s wild and serve it with a squeeze of lemon and pinch of basil.

Serving Size – Due to the fact that 96% of the 100 baby salmon you released will die, this meal only serves a family of four. If you would like to serve millions, then simply add more eggs. Try 1.5 billion – why not – the state of Alaska does it. Don’t you worry if there isn’t enough food in the ocean or if you erase the gene pool of natural wild salmon! If no one else cares, then why should you?

Not quite what you were expecting, huh?

Merry Christmas from ‘The Truth About Alaska Salmon’!