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Whoa Magazine - Women in the Wild

Thanks Whoa Magazine for featuring Salmon Sisters! Take a look at the website to find stories about incredible, adventurous women from all over the world who call the wild their home.

Introducing the Spring 2016 Collection

Fisherpoet: Maggie Bursch

Maggie Bursch is one of the youngest female skippers in Bristol Bay. She runs her drift boat, the F/V Georgette Rose with a crew of young fishermen (mostly baddass ladies) and grew up set netting...

Our Local Food Systems & Fishing Community

This winter we've been able to attend some great events, many centered around our local food systems and the people behind them. Here are few highlights many resources for fishermen too!

Fisherknits: The Cordova Gansey Project

In Cordova, Alaska, a local yarn shop called The Net Loft (owned by Dotty Widmann) is calling for knitters in Alaska to join the Cordova Gansey Project. A "gansey" is a traditional hand-knit wool...

Family Fishing Traditions Part 1: Sitka's Lexi Fish Hackett | Repost from AMCC

"I grew up spending time on my parent’s longline and salmon tender boat. I took my first trip on the boat when I was 9 months old. I didn’t fish with my parents during the derby days (not so kid...

Let your Fish Flag Fly

Cheers to 2015! Remembering this good year.

At the end of this year, we’ve had some time to reflect on everything we were able to accomplish throughout it. Looking back, one of the things that really stood out to us was just how much all ...

Engineered by Nature Tees | ASMI & Salmon Sisters

Our new Engineered by Nature Tees, made in partnership with the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI), are a celebration of the wildness that makes Alaska's seafood pure nutritious gold. Prin...

Holiday Gift Boxes from Salmon Sisters & The Salmon Project

We're delighted to introduce a holiday collaboration we've been working on with our friends at The Salmon Project. Our Holiday Gift Boxes are incredible collections of ocean-inspired goods, each i...

Alaska Salmon Leather Wallets

We've created something we are truly proud of. In collaboration with Alaskan leather artist Mary Hayden and the innovative Tidal Vision, producer of 100% sustainable wild Alaska salmon leather, w...

Introducing! Smoked Salmon by Salmon Sisters Seafoods

As Salmon Sisters has evolved, we've become aware of the importance of locally-sourced and locally-accessible seafood. Even though so many Alaskans spend their summers on and near the ocean, goo...

Changing Seasons: Salmon Season's End and Salmon Sisters Beginnings

As our fishing friends finish their seasons, we all gather around our kitchen tables, sharing rockfish jigged up on the way home from Prince William Sound and the King Crab traded for King Salmon ...

AK Wild Woman: Astrid Rose (Lessons from a Kodiak Fishing Family)

"It's mid-August in Kodiak which is synonymous with peak salmon season in our life.  This year we're navigating things a little bit different because I gave birth to Silas Finley Rose 3 months a...

100 Days of Salmon: Part 1

Our summers are in full swing! Many of us are fishing, waking up early and staying up late, chasing jumpers and stacking corks and hanging on the end of our drift nets late into windy sunsets and...

AK Wild Woman: Holly Dickson (Fisherwoman and Gameswoman)

"The first time salmon got under my skin I was seventeen and working on a tender boat in Bristol Bay. I laughed when I woke up and found I had fallen asleep, scales still stuck to my face and a...

Our Summer Boat Books

We stock up on good books before we leave for fishing every summer. Though the days of June through September are the longest and toughest work, it's also the time of year when we find ourselves ...

#AKSALMONSISTERS

We love Instagram. Not only because we love seeing what our friends and fans are up to everyday in their creative and adventurous lives, but because it helps connect a unique community of inspiri...

AK Wild Woman: Nelly Widmann (Adventurer)

"I grew up in a fishing family where I would work together with my brothers and dad on a seine boat every summer in Prince William Sound, Alaska. I loved the adventure of working on the water and...

Salmon Sisters 2015 Summer Fishing Essentials

  Salmon Sisters 2015 Fishing Essentials  This gear list is based off of our commercial fishing experience gillnetting in Area M on the Alaska Peninsula, Seining in Prince William Sound and longli...