As international influences and pricing pressures proceed to adversely affect the Alaskan seafood market, Carnival Company’s land and sea operations for Holland America Line and Princess Cruises in Alaska are taking a two-pronged strategy to assist mitigate the downturn’s results in one of many state’s major industries.
In Alaska, many of the firm’s land-based eating places, eating venues, and worker menus are stocked with recent, domestically sourced seafood. Styles of salmon, halibut, Alaska cod, rockfish, scallops, Dungeness crab, Bairdi crab, salmon roe, and oysters are served in 20 areas all through the state. Holland America and Princess serve greater than 230,000 kilos of seafood every summer season in lodges and aboard ships.
“We’re dedicated to sourcing domestically, at any time when doable, providing our company the perfect of Alaska’s seafood,” says Marc Ducharme, the corporate’s vp of lodge operations for Alaska and the Yukon. “Prioritizing sustainable fishing is not only the appropriate factor to do, it’s a key a part of our mission to advertise Alaska’s superb seafood choices. Lots of our land-based meals and beverage venues have earned Marine Stewardship Council certification for sustainably sourced fish.”
The second a part of Carnival Company’s effort entails a powerful relationship with the Alaska Seafood Advertising and marketing Institute (ASMI), the advertising and marketing arm for the Alaska seafood trade. AMSI, recent off a $4-million grant from the U.S. Division of Agriculture, has a long-established and intensive collaboration with Holland America/Princess’ land operations in Alaska. The partnership focuses on a number of key initiatives, together with:
- Educating greater than 200 staff by Alaska Seafood U, a web based ASMI course with varied coaching modules.
- Designing and implementing menus that spotlight recent, domestically caught seafood.
- Showcasing wild Alaska seafood movies in visitor rooms on Alaska cruise ship itineraries.
“ASMI and Carnival Company share a steadfast dedication to sustainability, and we’re honored to proceed to develop our strong partnership,” mentioned Megan Rider, ASMI’s home advertising and marketing director. “Their dedication to showcasing Alaska’s wild, ample seafood aboard their ships is inspiring, and we’re thrilled to assist showcase this state’s treasures to their company.”
Visitor Choices on Land and Sea
Holland America Line, a world cruise chief, is the one cruise line to earn the distinguished Accountable Fisheries Administration (RFM) certification, the benchmark for serving solely recent, licensed sustainable and traceable wild Alaska seafood on board all ships crusing the Nice Land. All fish served on its six Alaska ships meets this rigorous commonplace. This contains 42 totally different Alaska seafood dishes accessible for dinner within the Eating Room, comparable to Seared Alaska Rockfish, Roasted Alaska Salmon, and Pan Fried Dover Sole.
Princess ships crusing in Alaska function an in depth menu rotation of Alaskan seafood dishes,
together with 30 distinctive Alaskan seafood dishes with featured gadgets each evening in all predominant eating rooms. Recipes spotlight solely the freshest seafood elements with a number of forms of Alaskan salmon, together with King, Sockeye and Coho, in addition to wild Alaskan cod (caught by hook and line solely), halibut, rockfish, Dungeness crabs, wild spot prawns and razor clams.
Ashore, Holland America Line and Princess Cruises provide company varied choices to benefit from the freshest native seafood throughout their intensive land operations in Alaska. Princess has 5 lodges within the state, every with their distinctive type and nice choices for sampling domestically sourced seafood and fare with meals at:
- King Salmon Restaurant at Denali Princess Wilderness Lodge that includes salmon served a number of methods.
- Rod & Reel Restaurant at Kenai Princess Wilderness Lodge serving wild Alaskan scallops and recent halibut.
- Two Rivers Restaurant at Copper River Princess Wilderness Lodge highlighting salmon and rockfish dishes.
Holland America Line operates three lodges all through Alaska, every with eating places that includes Alaskan seafood, together with:
- Marine Stewardship Council-certified Alaskan jig-caught Rockfish, mussels, halibut, and salmon at Canyon Steakhouse and Karsten’s Public Home at McKinley Chalet Resort.
- Cedar planked salmon at Chilkoot Eating Room on the Holland America Skagway Inn.
From pristine seas to picturesque lodges, Alaska’s bounty awaits.