I get a lot of ads for them, and found some good reviews, so I bit down and ordered from them. I got the Mixed option, some salmon and some white fish- cod and pollack. First night was Sockeye salmon. Husband’s was good, mine tasted definitely over the hill. I got a well-how-is-it from the company, so I told them. She cross-examined me on my cooking method, how I defrosted it (I’d read up how to treat it via their web site) until I told her that a) I’d had caught-that-day Sockeye in Kenai and b) my husband did commercial salmon fishing out of Homer one summer. So she offered us a $10 discount on our next order, which is fair. Then we had the cod, which was tough and kind of almost stringy, actually. It wasn’t overcooked. I love good cod, this wasn’t it.
Now I’m wondering if I should order from them again, they’re not cheap and I can get pretty good seafood here. Have any of you ordered from them before? What was your opinion?
Mail order seafood (and meat, for that matter) is for people who will pay a premium for what is not locally available, realizing that there will always be a risk of random quality failure. Since you can get decent seafood locally, why pay extra for mail order?
I was hoping to get better, fresher seafood. I’m a long way from the north Pacific and that was the best seafood I’ve ever had. This is supposed to be caught, flash frozen, ice glazed, vacuum packed, and shipped with dry ice, as opposed to store bought that who know when it last saw the ocean. It’s an experiment, obviously, and the reviews I’ve read were very positive.
we are most fortunate to have a ‘local branch office’ of a three generation fish monger family… their stuff is absolutely fabulous - whole fish, filleted/cut from fresh, live oyster/clam/mussels . . . jarred oysters from local sources, hand picked bay blue claw crab meat . . .
couple days back - six ounce / 170g flounder fillets . . .
their (USA wild caught) shrimp are ‘thawed’ - but from on-board processing. the neat bit is they get various shrimp species per season - those are delectable treats! shrimp do taste different!
“Now I’m wondering if I should order from them again”
I would not give them a second chance.
The quality of the fish you eat all starts on the boat and how they treat the fish. Land it, kill it, bleed it, put it on ice. Clean it and freeze it as soon as it’s back at the dock.
About 15 years ago I started going to Sitka Alaska every summer to fish, and usually bring home about 125 lbs of processed fish each trip. One of the reasons I like the organization that I fish with is how they treat the fish. It’s done as I have described above, and is flash frozen as soon as it is filleted and packaged. I fish here in Hawaii as well, and we try to treat the fish the same here. Get it on the boat, kill it/bleed it and get it on ice ASAP.
I’ve seen how other boats and organizations treat it’s fish, and no wonder it tastes a little off.
I think I’ll give them one more chance, but I realize there’s many a slip between catching, processing, packing, and shipping seafood. Their shipping was perfect, I’ll give them that.
Don’t they offer a 100% money back gaurantee?
With the qualification that I don’t eat this (though I know I should), I’ve bought a couple of times from here: https://prideofbristolbay.com
I think (though I’d have to go through my email receipts) that I also bought from the other place, but I don’t remember.
Anyway, the person I bought it for says the salmon is good (that’s all we get), but we don’t have your experience of really, really fresh salmon either.
I don’t recall. I’ll check into it, thanks
I’ve purchased from Alaska Home Pack with success. I’ve only bought black cod and crab legs but both have been delicious and high quality.
