Spotlight on Sarah O'Neill, Crew Boss Name: Sarah O’Neill Job Title: Commercial Fishing Crew Boss Fishing Location: Bristol Bay, Alaska in the Egegik District close to Big Creek Total Years Fishing: 28 How She Got Started: Neal family bought the set net site in...
The Treasure of Bristol Bay On the coast of Bristol Bay is a teeming watershed that supports a wildly sustainable sockeye salmon fishery. Take a deep dive into the story of the keystone species that pumps life into this Alaskan wilderness.
Dear Fish Lover Dear Fish Lover, This week I received a box containing ten pounds of frozen Sockeye Salmon fillets caught, processed, and shipped by The Popsie Fish Company. They came frozen hard and attractively packaged. I grilled...
Sustainable Seafood Guide We’re delighted to share with you a great new Sustainable Seafood Guide that lays out the current seafood landscape, and clearly shows how to make wise seafood purchasing decisions. This guide encourages all of us...
Family Recipe - Blackened Salmon Cakes You can't go wrong with sharing our wild-caught Alaskan seafood with friends and family - and that's exactly what fishers Jake & Brittany did last month! Inviting some friends over for dinner, they decided to...
Bristol Bay Water Trips At our fish camp in Bristol Bay Alaska, there are no utilities what-so-ever. Everything, electricity, propane, diesel, gasoline, and most importantly water has to be carefully thought out and planned. Since we have no potable...
Family Recipe - Salmon Burrito There's nothing we love more than when our friends and family try new recipes with our frozen Wild Caught Seafood. And these two cuties knocked it out of the park with the help from their...
Commercial Fishing Knots 101 Knots are incredibly important to commercial fishing. They’re important to setting and pulling out to our nets, catching our fish, and intense high-stress emergencies. Knots will actually save your life and the life of everyone...
Family Recipe - Salmon Burgers Our families and friends love to try new recipes with our frozen wild caught seafood. With no better way to kick off their weekend, fisher Gwen & Alex have shared their very own Sockeye Salmon Burger...
A Kid's Experience Commercial Salmon Fishing My name is Owen. I'm twelve and I've been going to fish camp every summer since I was three years old. When I was little, I played while the crew worked. I played with army...
Planning for Fish Camp There are no roads to our fish camp. No town. No stores. Definitely no Amazon delivery. Just clusters of cabins and outbuildings nestled in the dunes and atop bluffs along a six mile stretch of...
Popsie Fish Company is Open Hello Friends! I’m writing to you from our fish camp at the mouth of the Egegik River in Bristol Bay. Gwen and I return to camp each September to button everything up for the coming...
The Popsie Cucumber Fish Tradition As a small family owned business, we know a thing or two about tradition. We also know a thing or two about facing a challenge head on (or head off as you’ll learn in the case...
Fishing with the Family The first time I traveled to Bristol Bay to commercial salmon fish, I was fifteen years old. I was fifteen and TERRIFIED of fish. That’s right: I am a commercial salmon fisher and have an...
International (Fisher)Women's Day What is International Women’s Day? International Women’s Day was created as a focal point in the women's right movement and was officially adopted by the United Nations in 1977 where we have been celebrating it...
Deforestation and Its Effect on Salmon To say that we, the Popsie Fish Company, are grateful for our planet is an understatement. She continues to provide for us, protect us, and care for us in ways that we’ll never be able...
How it All Started I, Tony Neal, first came to Alaska in 1963, summer job, and after graduating, Army, and working overseas I moved to Homer in 1969. Of course, those days were outdoors Heaven. I had a good...
How to Forecast the Tides When you’re a commercial salmon fisherman time suddenly seems irrelevant. The days and weeks blend together as one. You go from “go-go-go” between 9am-5pm in your normal life to your entire days being dependent upon...
