Sockeye Salmon

Sockeye Salmon is caught in the area FAO 67 and 61

The Sockeye Salmon is delivered to the freezing plants on shore refrigerated. Quality evaluations are performed during unloading, and processing which include monitoring of the temperature and condition of the Sockeye Salmon Lots found unacceptable are rejected.
The Sockeye Salmon is maintained at temperatures near 0° until freezing or onwards processing.
Prior to being scheduled for processing, representative samples from are test and samples are evaluated before and after to assess the quality.

Seafood Sales’ staff on site will control that the Sockeye Salmon is handled and processed according to our specification and our service included a quality report for each shipment. The quality assessment report includes verification of specification correctness, control weights, label control and organoleptic judgment.
When the Sockeye Salmon is scheduled for processing it is brought out of the cold storage and thawed to near-frozen temperatures
Each fish is evaluated by trained staff in the workshop for physical characteristics associated with decomposition or contamination. Any Sockeye Salmon exhibiting unacceptable characteristics is rejected.
Acceptable Sockeye Salmon is placed on racks and transferred to the workshops, where the processing takes place. In the workshop each worker is trained to maintain a high level of personal hygiene and each worker is informed of the particular specification of the day.
The Sockeye Salmon is reaching average weights 3,5 kg. The catching season is from July to August – but it can vary.

Sockeye Salmon products are mainly processed in China, where the main production sites are Yantai, Dalian and Qingdao. The low wages in China is still the prevailing reason for the high processing volume there.

Even the product is double frozen, the quality and the nutritional values are maintained at a high level.

Seafood Sales recommends eating Sockeye Salmon which is the natural and sustainable choice for Seafood lovers all over the world. You will easily find recipes’ on the Internet.