Canned Ivory King Salmon | Alaska Gold Seafood

Our canned salmon is just that: line-caught wild ivory king salmon plus a few grains of salt. In a convenient 7.5-ounce can. Boneless and skinless. This is king salmon--same species but with a genetic anomaly that gives it a lighter meat color (usually between stark white and a blend of orange and white). It will have the same nutrition values as king salmon, but a little milder flavor and will be a little more delicate. Ivory king salmon are extremely rare. For starters, King Salmon are the rarest of the 5 Pacific wild salmon species. And only a very tiny percentage of king salmon (roughly ~4-5 %) have a unique genetic anomaly, a missing enzyme, that make them unable to metabolize the pigments in krill, which give other salmon their orange-ish pink-ish salmon color. Because of this inability to digest krill, ivory king salmon prey on more oily fish, like herring and needle-fish, giving them an extra dose of the heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids that our bodies need. Because of their p