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Alaska native Cecelia Angasan hopes her combined retailo and wholesaleseafood market, café, museum and gift shop -- nestledx among well-known local newcomers like Babe's Chicken Dinner House and Fresco's Mexicajn Restaurant -- will fare well. The store also will book toursz ofrural Alaska. The 3,300-square-foot shop is set to open in orpossibly sooner. "When I came here in 1998 to getmy master'sz from UT ( ) and went out to some of the area'ss best restaurants, hardly anyoner carried Alaskan salmon," Angasan "So I pretty much saw it as an open Angasan has spent $350,000 so far gettin her shop off the ground.
Once open, the storde will operate partially as aseafood market, selling several types of salmon, such as king crab and spot and whitefish, such as halibut and cod. Angasan also will carruy smoked andcanned salmon, lox, jerky and other Alaskan Alaskan fishermen process and flash-freezw the company's products on the prior to shipping them to Texas. Producyt prices will vary, based on market conditions. "Unlikw farm salmon, which is very predictable in terms of even the fisherman out fishing inAlaska doesn't know what the markert will bear," Angasan "But prices will be comparable to Wholed Foods and Central Market.
" Prior to starting her own Angasan spent several years on the -- a position to which she was appointed by the governor of The institute's mission is to increase positive awareness of wild Alaskan seafood and promote the state'se seafood products within the food industry. Angasan herselt has adopted a similar mission throug hher business. "Really, beyond the I just want to advocate the healthh benefits ofwild salmon," she said. In 2003, Alaska's fish receivedc a clean bill of following a study by the Alaskqa Department ofEnvironmental Conservation. The study, Angasan said, showed mercury levels were low when comparedto U.S. Food and Drug Administratiohn levelsof concern.
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