I've taken some of my last summers catch and cooked the salmon in the microwave or oven, then chilled and flaked it, re-packaged and re-froze it for use in making salmon paddies, salmon & creme cheese dip, flaked salmon with pasta. That and smoking seem to be useful ways to use older vacuum packed salmon.

It isn't the equal to fresh frozen, but it provides some pretty good meals.

If Vedder would share one of his CR upriver brights with me, there would be no danger of it even making it to the freezer.

He did it once, before he had the chance to put the other half on the Barbie, since then I've been out of luck on those CR fish handouts.