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merryb > wrote:

> On May 23, 10:09 am, Steve Wertz > wrote:
> > On 23 May 2007 09:14:24 -0700, merryb wrote:
> >
> > > Well, it's here- for 24.99 a pound! It is beautiful stuff, but I just
> > > can't justify it (yet)! Thankfully, the price should drop in the next
> > > few weeks. Have any of you tried it, and do you think it's worth the
> > > price?
> >
> > The last two years it's stayed pretty expensive throughout the
> > season. The couple years prior to that, it got down to $7-$8/lb
> > by mid-season.
> >
> > Anybody know how much they've "allotted" this year compared to the
> > last couple seasons?
> >
> > -sw
>
> I thought I heard 31,000 lbs somewhere, but that may have been the 1st
> delivery in Seattle.

This year the media made a big deal of the first Copper River salmon to
reach Seattle. Alaska Airlines shipped the fish on a "Salmon
Thirty-Salmon", and some of the fish-chuckers from Pike Place Market
were on hand to unload the first fish from the plane.

Cindy

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