Why is Alaska Seafood so superior?
Alaska is fish country. For thousands of years, the fishes of Alaska’s seas and rivers have supported human use, from fisheries used by Alaska’s indigenous Native peoples since prehistoric times, to today’s modern seafood industry. Alaska is home to abundant stocks of many species of fish, and offers some of the cleanest marine, freshwater, and upland habitats in the world. Effective state and federal institutions manage fisheries that are productive and sustainable, clean and healthy. Alaska is the only State in the nation whose Constitution explicitly mandates that all fish, including salmon, shall be utilized, developed, and maintained on the sustained yield principle. A series of unique attributes explain why seafood from Alaska’s wild fisheries consistently test very low in contanimants and are widely recommended as sustainably produced foods: • Alaska is thousands of miles away from large sources of pollution that can contaminate the human food supply in other parts of the world.
