Seafood Handling and Harvesting Publications & Videos

Seafood buyers pay top dollar for fish that looks, smells, feels, and tastes good. These thorough yet brief booklets will help you quickly learn how to make a better profit by treating your catch right and keeping quality high. The publications are based on laboratory research that confirms the best handling methods for Alaska fish. See our new "recipes" section for tasty cooking ideas.

How to order our publications.

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Note: Some items are listed in more than one catalog. Most items are labeled with one of these tags:

[B] = Book/Booklet   [BR] = Brochure   [H] = Handouts
[J] = Journal Article Reprint   [P] = Poster   [V] = Video

Flatfishes

  1. [B]Care of Halibut Aboard the Fishing Vessel
    How to land, prepare, and store halibut. 36 pp.
  2. [B]Guide to Northeast Pacific Flatfishes: Families Bothidae, Cynoglossidae, and Pleuronectidae, 2nd edn.
    Guide to all 40 species of flatfishes in the northeast Pacific. 114 pp.
  3. [BR]Flat Out Facts about Halibut
     Pacific halibut information, for sport fishermen.
  4. [J]Factors Affecting Quality of Rock Sole Fillets
    Study on improving the quality of rock sole handling. 12 pp.

Rockfishes

  1. [B]Guide to Northeast Pacific Rockfishes: Genera Sebastes and Sebastolobus
    Guide to 32 rockfishes known to occur off the coasts of Alaska and B.C. 78 pp.
  2. [B]Quality Handling of Hook-Caught Rockfish
    How to maintain rockfish quality on board a fishing vessel. 20 pp.
  3. [BR]Angler's Guide to the Rockfishes of Alaska: Biology and Fishery Management
    How to avoid permanent damage to Alaska's rockfish stocks. 2 pp.

Salmon

  1. [B]Care and Handling of Salmon: The Key to Quality
    How to produce top-quality salmon products. 66 pp.
  2. [V]Quality Is in Your Hands: Salmon Skiff Fishermen
    How to handle fish and manage a skiff. 16 min.
  3. [V]Salmon Quality for Gillnet Fishermen
    How to improve quality of gillnet-caught salmon. 30 min.

Processing and Shipping

  1. [B]Air Shipment of Fresh Fish: A Primer for Shippers and Cargo Handlers
    Prevent spoilage through proper packaging and handling. 32 pp.
  2. [H]Handling of Fresh Crab and Crabmeat
    How to use reflex to predict crab mortality, and other handling hints. 8 pp.
  3. [B]International Smoked Seafood Conference Proceedings
    How to advance in the smoked seafood industry. 126 pp.
  4. [B]Marketing and Shipping Live Aquatic Products
    How to market and ship food finfish, shellfish, ornamentals, and plants. 320 pp.
  5. [B]Planning for Seafood Freezing
    Physics of freezing, selecting freezing equipment, and food science principles. 126 pp.
  6. [B]Planning Seafood Cold Storage, 3rd edn.
    Guide to planning a cold storage facility. 78 pp.
  7. [B]A Village Fish Processing Plant: Yes or No?
    Handbook on planning a fish processing plant. 125 pp.
  8. [H]Common Mistakes in HACCP
    Several handouts on how to avoid HACCP mistakes. 1 pg. each.
  9. [BR]Seafood Safety: What Consumers Need to Know
    Brochure tells consumers how to handle seafood safely.
  10. [BR]Seafood Shelf Life as a Function of Temperature
    Prevent and predict fish spoilage using a simple formula. 6 pp.
  11. [P]Personnel and Plant Cleanliness for Seafood Processors
    Color. Information for employees in English and Spanish.

Gear and Methods

  1. [B]Gillnet Hanging
    Illustrated fishermen's guide to gillnet hanging. 22 pp.
  2. [B]Net Mending and Patching
    Guide to net mending, with photos and illustrations. 15 pp.
  3. [B]Ocean Treasure: Commercial Fishing in Alaska
    Color-illustrated book on Alaska seafood industry. 200 pp.
  4. [B]Temperature Directed Fishing: How to Reduce Bycatch and Increase Productivity
    Teaches fishermen how to find target fish using thermistor readings. 43 pp.
  5. [P]North Pacific Albatrosses
    Color. 8 1/2 x 11 laminated identification card.
  6. [V]Hanging a Gillnet
    How to plan and hang your own gillnet. 18 min.

Shellfish and Specialty

  1. [B]Advances in Seafood Byproducts: 2002 Conference Proceedings
    Book on advances in seafood byproducts industry worldwide. 566 pp.
  2. [B]Fishing for Octopus: A Guide for Commercial Fishermen
    How to fish for the giant Pacific octopus. 48 pp.
  3. [B]Making Profits Out of Seafood Wastes: Proceedings of the International Conference on Fish By-Products
    Creative processing technologies to make use of waste. 248 pp.
  4. [B]Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning: The Alaska Problem
    Excellent summary of the PSP problem in Alaska. 20 pp.
  5. [B]Recoveries and Yields from Pacific Fish and Shellfish
    Data for more than 65 species, from raw whole to cooked meat. 36 pp.

Seafood Recipes

  1. [BR]Fish-Wurst: Recipes for Sausage from Fish
    Basic recipes plus several tasty variations for fish-wurst.
  2. [BR]Flat Out Facts about Halibut
     Pacific halibut information, with several recipes.
  3. Seafood Bookmarks
    Six different seafood bookmarks, with recipes.

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