Commercial fishing has supported Alaskan families for years.  Fishing continues to be a ‘way of life’ for many Alaskans.  At Fera Alaskan Seafood, we are proud to be part of a long tradition of fishing families.  We not only support small fishing families who make their living from the sea, but we are also involved in fishing ourselves.  In the summer months during college, Luke Wiedel worked as a commercial fishing deckhand along the coast of Southeast Alaska.  He now operates an Alaskan salmon troller with his younger brothers.

As a customer, we invite you to join in our support of Alaskan fishing families.  When you purchase our products, you support the people who have become stewards of Alaska’s oceans and resources.  We support Alaskan seafood because it’s a sustainable choice and because the industry’s fishing families are managed using responsible fishing methods.  We are proud to support Alaskan fishermen and we feel strongly that you have a right to know all about the seafood that you are purchasing.  Read just a few examples of ‘where our products come from’:

Our hook and line caught Alaskan salmon species are harvested on a small salmon troller on the cold waters of Southeast Alaska.  Fera Alaskan Seafood owner Luke Wiedel spends much of the summer trolling with his brothers as his deckhands.

Much of our Alaskan Halibut, Black Cod, and Yellow Eye Rockfish are harvested (line-caught) on a small traditional troller (the F/V ‘Morgan’) by a husband and wife, and their two young boys as ‘junior’ crew members.  The family normally makes camping trips out of their time on the ocean, pulling up to the beach to let the kids ‘explore’ in between pulling fishing gear.

Our Alaskan Spot Prawns are harvested on the F/V ‘Cajun Boy’ by Capt. Bruce B, an Alaskan commercial fisherman with over 26 years of experience on the oceans of Alaska.  Bruce often takes his two sons on fishing trips as crewmembers during the winter-month shrimp season.  The shrimp they catch are harvested in small pots, rather than by trawl nets, on the ocean floor.  Each pot is pulled to the boat individually and the shrimp placed aboard.  This particular fishing method greatly reduces damage to the ocean floor.