Originally Posted by
iahphx
I didn't look that carefully at the Simon & Seaforts early bird menu because they had 1 salmon dish and 1 halibut dish, so it was obvious that my wife and I were going to order each and split them. I don't think it was exactly the dish you described, but it was quite tasty.
I was looking at the
early bird menu online earlier, and the halibut dish on the online menu was, I think, more or less the same thing as I'm thinking of:
Asiago Alaskan Halibut
Asiago and Parmesan cheeses, pan seared, rich butter sauce, roasted garlic mashed potatoes, sauteed vegetables.
Originally Posted by
iahphx
I was down on the Copper River chatting with the salmon wheel fishermen (I use that term loosely, as using a wheel doesn't seem much like "fishing" to me!), and there's no place there to get a piece of fresh salmon, even though you can see the fishermen fillet it in front of you. They told me that an Alaskan can lose their permit to fish if they do anything with the fish other than eat it themselves. Hence no guy on the side of the road with a grill -- which would be a huge tourist attraction!
Interesting. I would assume that's because the guys using the wheels are likely fishing on subsistence permits, and selling it or using it commercially would probably be a violation of the terms of that permit, since it's designed to allow you to feed your family, not make a profit. The guys collecting fish from the wheels are
not fishing for sport!
