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Sent: 12/14/2005
Subject: [ODFW-News] ODFW stocks Oregon
Food Bank with salmon fillets
For Immediate
Release Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2004 [this is the way
it was spelled]
ODFW stocks
Oregon Food Bank with salmon fillets
Clackamas, Oregon - A
special holiday dinner with Oregon salmon as the
centerpiece will be a reality for many people
needing assistance from the Oregon Food Bank
thanks to donations by the Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife.
ODFW has donated the
equivalent of 146,000 servings of salmon to the
Oregon Food Bank this fall. The salmon is
delivered as frozen fillets ready for cooking.
The Oregon Food Bank
will distribute the fillets to every county in
Oregon through a statewide network of 20 regional
food banks and hundreds of hunger-relief agencies.
The relief agencies will give the fillets to
people in need.
Since 2001, ODFW has
donated 301,000 pounds of salmon to the Oregon
Food Bank, which equates to about 1.2 million
4-ounce servings of fish. The donated chinook
salmon, coho salmon and steelhead are
hatchery-reared fish that have returned to
Oregon's hatcheries from the ocean to complete
their life cycle. In the past several years, ODFW
has had many more fish return than necessary to
produce the next generation of hatchery fish.
The fish donated are processed in accordance with
federal food handling guidelines by
American/Canadian Fisheries, Inc., a company based
in Bellingham, Washington. American/Canadian
provides all the staff and equipment at no charge
to ODFW and the food bank in exchange for the
opportunity to market by-products of the filleting
process in international markets.
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