dried salmon
Preserved pink fillet
Dried salmon is salmon preserved by removing moisture, a technique used for centuries by Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest and other salmon-rich regions.
The fish is typically filleted and hung or laid out to dry, sometimes smoked first.
Dried salmon keeps for months without refrigeration and can be eaten as-is or rehydrated for cooking: She packed dried salmon for the long journey.
- smokedExposed to wood fumes
- smoke houseMeat preservation structure
- jerkyCured meat snack
- curedRestored to health
- preservedKept from deterioration
food preservation · fish · strips · leathery · chewy · brine · salt · Alaska · Pacific Northwest · Indigenous · traditional food · fish camp · winter · winter stores · stores · pink · flaky · omega
- dried fishstockfish, salted fish, smoked fish, kippers, bacalao
- frontier provisionspemmican, hardtack, jerky, salt pork, bannock
- Native Foodspemmican, wild rice, bison, venison, three sisters
- preserved seafoodsalted fish, salt fish, fermented fish, salt cod, salted cod
- Alaska NativesAleut, Unangan, Athabaskan, Athabascan, Haida
- Gwich'in CultureOld Crow, fish camp, mukluks, trapline, subsistence hunting