Selling Salmon in Your Shop

Offer different cuts of salmon to appeal to any customer
By Casey Holley Salmon are a popular fish choice for seafood lovers. This meaty fish can be cooked in several different ways. Smoked salmon and lemon pepper salmon are two of the most common ways to prepare salmon.

In order to meet the needs of any customer who wants to enjoy salmon, you should sell a variety of different styles of salmon. Keep these suggestions in mind when you purchase salmon for your business:

1. Offer farm raised salmon for customers who want to assurance that the salmon was monitored and healthy.

2. Appeal to customers who want fresh caught wild salmon.

3. Meet the needs of customers who are in a hurry and don't have time to clean salmon before cooking it.

Sell farm raised salmon

Some customers like to eat farm raised salmon because the salmon's diet is monitored. When you purchase farm raised salmon, you should make sure that they fish are fed only natural foods. In some areas, it is common for a salmon fishery to use hormones to make the fish larger so they can make a larger profit.
Try:  AlwaysFreshFish.com sells salmon fillets by the pound from salmon farms. This company has recipes for salmon, including baked salmon recipes. You can get wholesale prices on large orders by calling the company. Southern Connection Seafood sells farm raised salmon from local salmon aquaculture farms. This company offers special discounts on large orders.

Offer fresh wild salmon

Alaskan salmon is one of the most widely available types of wild caught salmon. Most Alaskan salmon is processed as soon as the salmon fishery boats dock. Within hours, it is packaged and shipped to you. Many customers enjoy the taste of fresh wild caught salmon. Make sure that you only purchase wild caught salmon from reputable salmon fisheries.
Try:  Great Alaska Seafood and Ed's Kasilof Seafoods offer salmon straight from Alaskan salmon fishing boats. These salmon are wild caught instead of farmed in salmon fisheries. Both companies sell raw, smoked, steamed or canned salmon at wholesale prices.

Consider offering salmon fillets

For customers who don't want to have to clean a salmon, you should sell salmon fillets. In order to appeal to every customer's taste, you should keep both farm raised and wild salmon fillets in stock. Most of the salmon fillets for sale are from wild caught salmon. These are often filleted, packaged and shipped within hours of being caught.
Try:  Linton's Seafood has salmon fillets for sale from local salmon fisheries. Discounts are available for large orders. Charleston Seafood sells Atlantic salmon fillets. You can find all natural or marinated raw salmon fillets at this store. All of the wild caught salmon are sold in two-pound increments.

• Sell ingredients for some of the most common salmon recipes, including lemon pepper salmon and smoked salmon.