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The ButteCast with Bill FoleyNo. 261: Amanda and Ben WlaysewskiAmanda Wlaysewski started working in the fish industry six days after she graduated from Butte Central in 2003.What she thought was a summer job, turned into career. Every summer since, she has gone to Bristol Bay, Alaska to work. She founded the Kvichak Fish Co., and for the last 15 years she has run her own small processing facility. She will be heading north again later this month.Amanda describes her community supported fishery model as “salmon gone girl scout cookies.” Her company takes orders in the spring and delivers them in August across Montana and Idah...2025-05-041h 26
Idaho MattersWhy landlocked foodies are buying wild Alaskan salmon in bulk(Hanna Merzbach / Wyoming Public Media )Excitement was in the air as people spent one of the last Saturdays of summer lined up in a coffee shop parking lot in Teton Valley in Eastern Idaho. They were there for fresh Alaskan salmon — 10-, 20- and 40-pound boxes of fillets and ground sockeye.“This is it right here,” said Carlen Hervig, standing at the front of the line under a blue tent “So, see. It just looks so beautiful.”Hervig pointed to the vacuum-sealed bag of bright red-orange ground-up salmon.She was picking up for a neighbor...2024-10-0805 min
Save What You Love with Mark Titus#6 - Amanda Wlaysewski - Kvichak Fish Co FounderIn this episode we explore the source of Bristol Bay wild salmon coming to our plates. Amanda Wlaysewski owns two businesses supplying salmon to the world; she’s also finishing her PhD in anthropology. In her spare time, Amanda and her family find a reverence for each fish that passes through her processing plant in Naknek and pass that along to their employees and now, the rest of us.Check out Amanda Wlaysewski and her work:Kvichak Fish CoSave What You Love with Mark Titus:Produced: Tyler WhiteEdited: Patrick Trol...2021-03-201h 10