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Fish-O-Gram
Dear Un-Prohibited Customers, Silly Laws Create Creative Outcomes. Ninety-eight years ago Nebraska today ratified the 18th amendment to the Constitution, pushing it over the top and outlawing the manufacture, sale and consumption of alcohol. Washington State had already banned alcohol, both through “local option” laws and a 1918 “Bone…
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Fish-O-Gram, Election-Day Octo! Eastern Fishes! Look Landward! Halibut Farewell, Vachel Lindsay Does Election Night!
A More Thoughtful Time…. Dear Tentacle-Minded Customers, This year, our Jones Ranch November Surprise is that a dark-horse fish broker friend came through with unexpected dab of Giant Pacific Octo. We will have 1800# of hard-froze Octo-flesh in our possession Thursday. This will be backed up with our incoming, round Octo…
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Fish-O-Gram, The Octo Edition, Crab Closures, Crab Openings, Diving Tragedy
Dear Rock-Picking Customers, Another October week past and now the holiday season is almost upon us. We here at Jones Ranch have been scrambling to get last minute dry-season work done. We have been preparing a field for fall planting to triticale and hay grasses. This marks the fourth time we have…
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Fish-o-gram, get your slug on!!
Get your Slug On! F.O.G. Book Review! Fall Fishes!! Raw Clams!! Beef’s Up! The Votes are In! The Urchins Won!! Dear Holothurian-Hugging Customers, For years now we have offered sea cucumbers, or Holothurians, as they are properly known, along with our other dive products. We, of course, love and stand…
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FIsh-O-Gram, Local Crab Bonanza!! Caviar Returns! Dive Fisheries Update!! Fresh King Crab!!
Dear Crab-Crazed Customers, This past October 1st our tribal and state-licensed friends kicked off another regular Dungeness crab season. The tribes fished through October 8th, then pulled off the water, while the state fleet will keep going for another couple of weeks. Waterfronts in Bellingham, Anacortes, Port Angeles and Blaine are…
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Fish-O-Gram Returns! Nooksack Coho! Urchins Ahead! Lambs to the Slaughter! Chef’s Corner—Jerked, Strangled or Rolled—How Do You Prefer Your Salmon?
Fish-O-Gram Returns! Nooksack Coho! Urchins Ahead! Lambs to the Slaughter! Chef’s Corner—Jerked, Strangled or Rolled—How Do You Prefer Your Salmon? It has been a good summer Dear September-Loving Customers, Your loyal Fish-O-Gram correspondent is now free of the labor of last long months–tank scrubbing at the shellfish hatchery. For those…
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Fish-O-Gram!!! Here we (Halibut) go again!!! Price Wars on the Inside! Fish Business, a Love Story. Crab, Blackcod! Eastern Fishes! Pink Power Play, Geology in Action!! JFF Meats!!!
Two eventful weeks have come and gone since F.O.G. has had a chance to put pen to paper. Our local halibut season kicked off on March 20, one day later than previously announced and was limited to 39 hours rather than the usual and expected 48. We are now into…
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Fish-O-Gram! Lent Supports Fish Consumption! Increase in Crab Quota! Halibut Countdown! Scallop Update! Fluke Frenzied RI Fishermen! Fresh Island Meats! Ask the Fishmonger!!
With all the hubbub over Chinese New Year and the dawning Year of the Monkey, we allowed Lent to begin unnoticed and unsung in the Fish-O-Gram. This week, we correct the oversight. Lent officially began this year on Ash Wednesday, February 10 and ends on Holy Thursday, March 24. During…
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Fish-O-Gram! Duck Luck! Chef Sweepstakes! Pink Letter Week!! Fresh Island Meats! Sunchokes! New Email & Fish Doldrums…… Halibut Countdown!!
If you have missed your scheduled, Friday, Sat, Sunday Fish-O-Gram, you are correct. It is tardy. Your dedicated Fish-O-Gram writer has been otherwise occupied, with the eye strain to prove it, hunched over over a tote full of geoducks trying to induce them to spawn. No dice thus far, the…
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Fish-O-Gram! Mission Revision!! Pink Progress! Jones Boys Scallop Shwag!! Nordic Culinary Innovations! Fishes on a Steady Roll!
Firstly, thanks to one and all for a tremendous Valentines week. We hope that you turned all the JFF product into happy customers and bulging registers. For us early February feels like a great milestone–days are lengthening, fish abundance an variety is growing, algae is beginning to boom in our…
