Aunty,

Nice posts. Thank you.

Where should J.Q. Public get his salmon? We've got anti-farmed salmon, anti-Indian netted salmon, and anti-non-treaty commercial salmon (presumably all gear types - gillnet, purse seine, and troll) on this BB. But not everyone who wants to eat salmon fishes for them. At the present time, I'd rather buy a salmon from a treaty fishery than a white commercial net fishery, if I could get the kind of fish I wanted. I avoid farmed salmon mainly because of the chemical use in the form of medication and artificial coloring.

With regard to the original post and the Muckleshoot advertising venture, I admire their initiative, but I think it will take a marketing miracle to succeed. The Cooper River salmon label works partly because of marketing and remains successful because it really is a very high quality product. The Muckleshoot label is being applied to terminal area harvested salmon that are fairly close to their spawnig time, and the quality just isn't there. Don't get me wrong, I eat plenty of river caught coho and some chinook - and an occasional pink - but they just aren't premium quality salmon. And there isn't much to differentiate them from all the other terminal area salmon being harvested. That is, even though they may do the right things in the form of bleeding the fish and promptly storing it on ice, it will still only be of average or good quality, and well below excellent or outstanding quality. Nonetheless, I hope it works for them, if for no other reason that salmon ought to go to market in the best possible condition that it can instead of the handling that typifies terminal area treaty Indian fisheries.

Sincerely,

Salmo g.