Washington readies for first shipment of Copper River Salmon

It’s a great time of year for fish lovers. Alaska Airlines is preparing to deliver the year’s first shipment of Copper River Salmon.

“This fish is some of the world’s finest fish,” according to Alaska Airline’s Bobbie Egan. Because of the way the fish has to get up stream and the journey it makes back to that region requires that it exerts a lot of energy – which helps make the fish some of the best tasting, she says.

They’ll deliver the fish to Sea-Tac on Friday, says Egan, within 24 hours of the first Copper River Salmon that is caught.