The three fishmongers at the famed market in downtown Seattle all had Copper River salmon for sale, and people were buying up the fish, even at the first-of-the-season prices, which are up from 2009.
Pure Food Fish Market was selling its king salmon fillets for $37.99 a pound, a a fishmonger who only called him self Junior said business was brisk for the hyped and mythologized fish from Alaska's Copper River. The store had whole kings for $29.99 (€24.15) a pound, and whole sockeyes for $24.50