How to filet a Copper River Red - my new youtube video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaYPXKoM5PA

Copper River Watershed Project -- Something Fishy's Going On

Tim's Fish Camp
downtown Kenny Lake

Tim training Amanda to filet reds

Dog food!

Gerteeville under winter renovations

RadiantGUARD wrapped over summer walls

Corina shows where the hearts are.. in the neck

Wanna learn how to smoke and can them now?

flowers bllomed after the rest of the garden froze

more fish table action

Vern, one of Tim's best buddies from Knik

Cornina, Tim and Amanda

Tim picked up Amanda and her friend Gus hitchhiking from McCarthy a few weeks back. We let them stay at Camp Redington and Amanda (in AK for the summer from SF, she's a potter) asked to come back for a week before she heads to Hawaii. She's trying everything here and having a great time doing it. We have to wood to cut and build a new gertee with her so she can show others how to do it. Except now that we're getting fish everything else is on hold.

Copper River Red Salmon turns YELLOW!!!

It seemed to get more color the longer it was in the sun.

Closeup of a yellow Copper River Red Salmon

Tim Redington holding a yellow Copper River Red

Yellow salmon next to normal looking red salmon

Tim found this yellow Copper River Red in the fishwheel this morning. He says he's never seen a red salmon turn yellow in all his 50 some years of commerical fishing in Alaska. Doubt we'll be eating this one. Haven't seen the inside yet, don't know if the flesh is yellow too. Tim plans to hand it over to a Fish and Game biologist, maybe they can tell us what happened to it. Pretty weird, and also pretty scary since SO many people and dogs depend on this fish to survive.