Newsletter Home     Industry Bite     Wild Watch     Featured Articles     Recipe of the Month     Order Materials Summer's A'Coming and the Salmon Are Running! Alaska Department of Fish and Game Opens the Stikine and Copper Rivers The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI) announces the kick-off of the 2006 summer salmon season with the opening of the Stikine River on May 1 and the Copper River on May 15, 2006. The Bristol Bay, Cook Inlet, Kotzebue Sound, Norton Sound, Kodiak, Aleutian Islands, Southeast Alaska, Yakutat, Prince William Sound and Alaska Peninsula fishing areas will have salmon openings through June and July. The summer salmon season typically runs through early fall so offer your customers wild Alaska Salmon from all over the state, as fresh stocks become available. Click here to read the full article »» ASMI Releases Four More Omega-3 White Papers by Dr. Joyce Nettleton The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI) has added four new bilingual white papers, written by Dietary Scientist and Registered Dietician Dr. Joyce Nettleton, to their available resources. Consumers can find valuable information about the health benefits of omega-3s, the fatty acids found in seafood, from all eight of Nettleton's white papers. Educated consumers will not only know the benefits that they can receive from omega-3s, but also will be able to distinguish between helpful fish omega-3s and the less beneficial plant omega-3s.   • More now than ever, consumers know that omega-3s are important to their health. However, products containing plant omega-3s, which do not provide the benefits that fish omega-3s give, can confuse consumers. In Omega-3s: Are Fish and Plant Omega-3s the Same?, Dr. Nettleton illuminates the superiority of fish omega-3s for the human system. Alpha-linolenic acid, the only omega-3 fatty acid found in plants, has some, but not all, of the health benefits associated with EPA and DHA, the omega-3s found in seafood. According to Nettleton, "EPA and DHA are known as long-chain omega-3s because their structure is longer than alpha-linolenic acid. The body has a strong preference for the long-chain omega-3s." The body can absorb more of these helpful omega-3s from seafood. Omega-3s from plants are converted into energy and burned while "A very small amount, less than 5%, is converted to EPA." Click here to read the full article »»