Nothing like wild salmon. The farmies are selfish, lazy, and simply refuse to properly plump themselves up. The CRS need the extra fat for the long commute back to the spawning grounds. The CostCo product is pretty good, but still pales in comparison to what is available in the NW. I used to travel to SEA (or sometimes ANC) every year around the first week of June just for the food. You can get CRS and king crab and the same time. :D

While I'm usually an A to B as fast as possible traveler, stopping in SEA for some fresh SEA grub is well worth it. I'll take the liberty to name the practice: GR (grub run*).

* - flying for the sole purpose of eating

In high school I was first exposed to farmed salmon in a blind taste test... never will I touch the stuff again :eew:

Found the sockeye at the Costco in Marina Del Rey, CA. Not sure about the other ones, but that one had it for sure.

Copper river salmon season 2011
 

Alaska Air Cargo Delivers Season's First Copper River Salmon To Seattle
Top Restaurant Chefs Compete In ‘Copper Chef Cook-off'
5/17/2011 7:05 a.m.

SEATTLE — Alaska Air Cargo delivered the season's first shipment of Copper River salmon today to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The arrival of Copper River salmon marks the start of the summer salmon season and is anticipated by seafood lovers throughout the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

please post when(and if) copper river salmon shows up in your costco.

Time to break out a bottle of pinot noir.

dh

Guess what, I'm in CVG and I saw it in MY grocery store last weekend! (Not a Costco, Kroger.) At $19.99 a pound I didn't buy any.

The Costco in Wenatchee has had Copper River Salmon for $12.99/lb. for the past two days.

because of the price or you don't like salmon?

BTW, thanks for posting slawecki, I haven't been to my Costco yet, but Whole Foods in Chicagoland has it.

$11 / pound in Coeur D'Alene, ID

Just bought 2 pounds at a place in Pike Place while I was in Seattle this week. Put it in a travel bag - planning on marinating it tomorrow night and grilling. Will make a salad with some of it for later in the week. Pricey but this salmon is sooo yummy! I'm looking forward to having it. I was planning on pairing it with a nice Sauvignon Blanc actually due to the hot weather!

I'm going to play the contrarian here. As much as I like wild Alaska salmon, particularly sockeyes, this is just a big marketing gimmick, not unlike the beaujolais nouveau hysteria generated by France. Don't misunderstand me. I love the salmon and I love beaujolais. I just don't like paying premium prices for the very first of the season.

It's down to $8.99/lb at the Costco in Wenatchee this week.

Actually, Copper River Salmon is a different type of salmon with a different flavor to it (much richer imo).

I'll have to look around for it here... however, most of the seafood that's readily available in New England is Atlantic stuff (for obvious reasons) and I don't really know if it makes sense to buy fish from 5 thousand miles away.

if you cannot tell the difference between atlantic farm raised salmon and copper river salmon, stick to the atlantic stuff.