Alaska Salmon

If you go fishing in Alaska while on your cruise, will the dining room cook up you catch?

We just got back from Alaska on the Sojourn, and they make it very clear that you cannot bring fish that you catch back on board with you. However, there are two other options if you want to enjoy fish that you catch:

1. if you live in the US, most of the charter companies can clean/fillet the fish then vacuum pack it and ship it to your home address for an additional cost. You tell them when you will be back home so that they know to wait to ship it until that date.

2. Some companies will cook your fish for you right near the dock if they are set up for it. Most won’t, however, so you do need to ask in advance if you are interested in that. We had a great experience with Baranof Charters in Ketchikan where they did a “Cook your Catch” trip for us - we spent 3 hours fishing and then they filleted our fish right on the dock and brought it to their chef who runs a kitchen overlooking the dock with a semi-private dining area. He then made us a multi-course meal from our fish which was quite delicious, and was quite a lot of food! We also got to ship the remaining fish back home to us since we caught way more than what we could eat in a single meal (or even in a week!). For those who don’t want to ship their fish or who can’t get it shipped, they said they would donate the rest of the fish to a local charity.

If none of those sound like good options to you, but you still want to go fishing, you can do catch and release, which some of the guests on our ship did.

Well that is a disappointment

Possibly SB (or the authorities) would not allow it for food security reasons.