08-19-2013, 05:11 PM
People are changing their minds about pinks. The Wash. Fish and Wildlife have done a lot of research on pinks and "eatability" in the last ten years, and found that it has everything to do with how you take care of your catch. Pink meat degrades much faster than other salmon, but if you take the F and W's suggestions and bleed them immediately, (some suggest to gut them also), and then keep them in a lot of ice, they are terrific eating. We usually serve one fillet of pink and one fillet of either coho or king when we have company over for salmon. We don't tell them which is which, and virtually every time they will pick the pinks over the coho; if king and either coho or pink, they tend to pick the king. I am amazed by some of the boats that come in with their salmon, incl. pinks, scattered all over the floor of the boat. I have no doubt that those fish might be rather nasty on the dining room table!! Mike
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