Pink Salmon

Smallest, most abundant, and most consumed Pacific salmon. Mild, soft pink flesh. Best for cakes, patties, chowders, and anywhere salmon plays a supporting role rather than a starring one. Most canned salmon on a U.S. shelf is pink.

A two-year-cycle fish, with strong runs in even years in many Alaskan watersheds. Caught primarily by purse seine and gillnet around Kodiak and through Southeast Alaska.

Don't sleep on pink. The price is right and the flavor is honest. The trick is to not treat it like sockeye.