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Stories & Recipes

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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...

Tidal Vision: Creative Innovations in the Seafood Industry

In Juneau, Alaska, a company called Tidal Vision offers new technologies to transform ocean byproducts into high-quality, durable aquatic leathers and performance textiles, promoting sustainabi...

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...

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...

Spring adventures

Sweet spring has come! We've been noticing the sunlight lasting longer and the scent of growth underfoot. More pickups are hauling nets around and more boats are being launched every day. We'...

King Cove, Alaska gets custom Salmon Sisters hoodies!

This winter we designed custom hoodies for the high school basketball team in King Cove, Alaska. The design featured a giant king crab, codfish, compass, and fishing boat that reminded us of ...

"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...

Custom Projects

Salmon Sisters keeps both of us pretty busy, but sometimes I take on side projects too! I've been making custom designs for all sorts of people. You can see some of the designs I've worked on in ...

AK Wild Woman: Kristin Vantrease (Artist)

We grew up with an amazing girl named Kristin Vantrease. Her linocut prints are beautiful snapshots from the past 13 summers that she has been commercial fishing in Bristol Bay, Kodiak and Prince...

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...

Valentine's Day Salmon Love Boxes

This Valentine's Day we've partnered up with our friends at the Salmon Project to make special salmon love-inspired gift boxes! The boxes can be ordered for your special fisherman or fisherw...

Glacier Skating

Last weekend's itch to adventure took us across Kachemak Bay by boat, up the Saddle Trail by foot, and across Glacier Lake by skate, to marvel beneath the bluest blues of Grewingk Glacier. Wi...

New Logo!

  We designed a new logo! We're excited for what this year will bring for our little company.

Custom Boat Apparel

Another year - another round of designing for fishing families around Alaska! We received requests from boat-owners around the state for our custom boat apparel and I drew eight vessels at my b...