Save up to 50% off with our early bird special

Fishing

Stories & Recipes

Fishing

We Alaskans: Salmon Sisters in the Alaska Dispatch News

We've been honored in a big way! Last week Salmon Sisters hit Alaska's biggest newspaper, in the "We Alaskans" section of the Sunday edition. We'd like to extend a big thank you to Elissa Brown, ...

Salmon Recipes from the NYTimes

We were very much honored this week to be in the New York Times! Sam Sifton of the Cooking section did a write up on delicious salmon recipes, inspired by the article he read about Salmon Siste...

AK Wild Woman: Lindsay Olsen (Adventurer)

Meet Lindsay Olsen: an Alaskan fisherwoman, writer, world traveler, extraordinary cook, historian, artist, national champion rower, Thomas J. Watson Fellow, and storyteller. We grew up with t...

"Homeward": by Kristin Vantrease

"You start off small, spherical, orange, translucent.  Immediately, you are surrounded by your family, stuck directly to them, hundreds of your brothers and your sisters.  The water around you,...

AK Wild Woman: Camrin Dengel (Photographer)

"As a photographer and a storyteller, I aim to inspire people to live a slow and connected life, one that is full of raw, organic beauty. Though, life on an Alaskan fishing boat is fast paced...

How to Fillet a Wild Salmon

We made a little guide to filleting a fish. This guide is definitely not the only way to fillet, but it's the way we learned when we were kids and it has served us well over the years. We're go...

Salmon Sisters on Alaska News Nightly

“I started designing some screen prints of the fish that we’d catch on the boat,” Emma said. “I always really liked the Japanese-style fish prints, so I started with a rockfish.” “That was ou...

Alaska's Fishermen: The Next Generation // Resources & Education

There are some great opportunities this spring for fishermen of all ages! Get involved in your fishing community and learn a little more about the issues important to your industry. Take a lo...

Introducing: the Salmon Love Hoodie!

We made something new that we're pretty excited about. The new Salmon Love Hoodie is the product of our work with the Salmon Project -- a project about Alaskans and their deep personal connecti...

Salmon Sisters at Fish Expo

In November we made our way to Seattle for the annual Marine Pacific Fish Expo! We shared a booth with the gracious people of Alaska's Sea Grant and had a great time connecting with fishermen...

Salmon Project Book Drop

This week in Homer we got to help organize a great event with the Salmon Project.  We gave away several hundred free copies of David Montgomery's book "The King of Fish," at Two Sisters Baker...

Fishing Photos: Our Instagram Favorites

We love fishing photos. We especially enjoy the ones we've seen recently of our fish-loving followers! We picked a few to share here, but many more can been found under the hashtag #aksalmon...

Salted and True

The beautiful girls I know don’t need to wear makeup. They are beautiful when they’re covered in hydraulic oil and fish scales.  They radiate confidence and competence. Orange raingear become...

Summer's End

Our summer ends today. It is our first night out of our bunks, in real beds. Our first day in many days to be back in Homer, the town we call home. It seems like a long time ago that we trave...

Our Partners

When we started Salmon Sisters, one of the keystones to our vision was that we would be able to give back to organizations and causes that were important to us.  We've felt lucky to find such...

Maritime Scholarship

  This spring Salmon Sisters helped support a local scholarship that was available to the graduating seniors of Homer High School. The Drew Scalzi Memorial Maritime Scholarship was establish...

Fishing Family

These past weeks have been busy ones for our family and for most others gearing up for another summer at sea. We anticipate packing up everything we need for the summer in rubber totes, shoving our...

Why It Matters

We have each found meaning in the days we spend at sea. For some, fishing means family, for others, a simple and naturally rewarding lifestyle. We find pleasure in small comforts while fishin...

The Spring Outlook

It's 3 days into spring and we have some surprises! New and exciting creations are finding their way onto our printing press. In the next few weeks new products will be up on our online store, and...

The Salmon Project Series: Thank you, Swimmer

Last month, The Salmon Project commissioned essays by 15 Alaskans who were asked to share some of their thoughts about the value of salmon in their lives and communities and Alaskans' prepare...