the alaska wild salmon company

We work with Juneau’s fishing families at Taku River Reds and Pelican’s fishing families at Yakobi Fisheries, to provide you with the best fresh salmon!

Who we are

We’re Mark Stopha and Sara Hannan from Juneau, Alaska. We have passed on our business selling salmon to Chris McDowell of Yakobi Fisheries in Juneau. Thanks to all our customers for your patronage over the years! We remain in Juneau. Sara is now a member of the House of Representatives for the state of Alaska legislature for part of the Juneau area. Mark commercially trolls for salmon a few trips a year, and volunteers for the USAID Farmer to Farmer program, working with fishermen in other countries on fish handling for quality and direct marketing their catch.

Learn how to cut salmon steaks from the master!

Good Salmon Pittsburgh

I’m Anna Valentine and I live with my husband and four children in Pittsburgh. I had the privilege of growing up on a farm in Michigan, selling fresh produce and flowers at the markets and now we’re happy to be your source for high quality Alaskan salmon at the markets here in Pittsburgh.

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Life in alaska and Beyond

Read about Mark's travels and life in Alaska

The Great Shovel Airlift 2026

January 07, 2026

I have a scoop “grain” shovel and a sleigh push shovel for moving snow. I mostly use the scoop shovel since you can’t throw snow with a sleigh shovel. Roy was here from Haine...

Guest Artist

January 03, 2026

My friend Nick Orr hunts deer out of Juneau, and he hunted in southern Southeast last fall, as well.  His writing is so much better than mine, but in the same style of just storytelling witho...

The Satisfaction of Firewood

December 23, 2025

Today I’m enjoying one of the things my Dad passed on to me, and that’s putting up firewood. It’s a year-round, part-time commitment to buck and split wood (still by hand in ...

E Gone!

December 05, 2025

What a morning!  I hiked into the muskeg complex at first light. Took me about 30 minutes to get up the hill, then another 30 to creep along the edges of the muskeg to the calling rock I pinne...