Meet Ruben Torres, SPC’s Sitka Plant Manager
At Seafood Producers Cooperative, the people are the difference. Meet Ruben Torres, SPC’s Sitka Plant Manager. Everything about Ruben is the epitome of the American Dream of starting at the bottom and working one’s way to the top. Ruben was a bartender in Guadalajara, Mexico and knew friends that had come back from Dutch Harbor, […]
Seafood Producers Cooperative Brings Its Wild Salmon to the International Pinot Noir Celebration
Seafood Producers Cooperative (SPC) brought its wild king salmon to the 31st annual International Pinot Noir Celebration (IPNC) in McMinnville, Oregon for the IPNC’s famous Salmon Bake. The IPNC Salmon Bake is the climax of a weekend filled with lots of good food and wines both from Oregon’s famed Willamette Valley and around the world. […]
Setting the Standard for Frozen Wild Seafood
Setting the standard for frozen wild seafood Sea-frozen salmon produced on freezer boats are a specialty product for niche buyers who are in the know and are willing to pay a premium. Seafood Producers Cooperative was recently featured in an article in New Food Magazine, which details the process of producing the finest frozen-at-sea wild salmon. […]
SPC on PBS Frontline
Seafood Producers Cooperative was featured in PBS Frontline’s in-depth investigation of seafood. You can stream it at the link below. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/the-fish-on-my-plate/ SPC owner Lance Preston and his Seaboy are featured prominently in the intro–roughly at the 2:20 to 3-minute mark. Please share away with friends and family. I think it’s a pretty fair look at the […]
SPC Wins Whole Foods Seafood Supplier of the Year Award
Seafood Producers Cooperative recently won Whole Foods Seafood Supplier of the Year Award “for helping Whole Foods Market offer its customers the best quality, sustainably caught king salmon, coho salmon, halibut, ling cod, sablefish and rockfish on the market; and for its unparalleled customer service, industry expertise and ability to deliver product when no one […]
Hospitals Dig Into Sustainable Seafood
We need to feed people not just for today but tomorrow and our sustainably caught seafood is a great option for the health of our bodies and our planet. Here’s an article from Crosscut, a Seattle magazine, about how several Seattle-area hospitals are working to incorporate more sustainable seafood into their menus. Chris Linaman, executive […]
Fresh Wild Salmon video
Here’s a love letter sent from Alaska. From the Seafood Producers Cooperative plant in Sitka to the finest restaurants stateside, below is a video that tells the story of the special journey of our salmon and how it reaches restaurant customers stateside. Salmon Life: A Love LetterFrom the sea to your table… it’s a delicious […]
Seafood Producers Cooperative partners with Fishwise
Seafood Producers Cooperative (SPC) partners with Fishwise, an NGO that “promotes the health and recovery of ocean ecosystems by providing innovative market-based tools to the seafood industry.” Fishwise supports “sustainability through environmentally responsible business practices.”
Definition of Sustainable Seafood
Because our fishermen’s cooperative is customer-driven, we are constantly working to not only keep up with but go above and beyond sustainability and food safety certification trends in the industry to ensure our customers that they are getting the best product available on the market. Our fish are MSC-certified and recognized by Monterey Bay Aquarium’s […]
USDA Focus on SPC
SPC is really proud to have been featured in the USDA’s Magazine of Rural Cooperatives (March/April 2015 issue). It’s an excellent article about our fishermen’s co-op. Great presentation of the history of our co-op, what is special about how we catch and produce fish and bring them to our customers, and why it’s a good idea […]