Yukon King grabs People's Choice in Vegas.

AuthorPilkington, Steve
PositionAPPLAUSE

The Alaska Symphony of Seafood announced that Yukon King Seafoods was awarded the Las Vegas People s Choice Award recently for its Smoked Cajun King Salmon at the organization's 13th annual New Products Contest.

Yukon King Seafoods' fishing grounds are located in Alaska near the base of the Yukon River where it empties into the Bering Sea. More than 600 individual fishermen, mostly Yup'ik Eskimo from the surrounding villages, participate in the fishery, whose collective history dates back thousands of years.

"It was a very close call this year," said Jim Browning with the Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation. "Over and over, though, everyone...

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