Summers spent in the Bering Sea, Barnum angler sells catch back home

Summers spent in the Bering Sea, Barnum angler sells catch back home

BARNUM — Surrounded by tundra and snowcapped mountains on the islands and peninsula that shape Alaska’s Bristol Bay, Barnum’s Seth Cooke spends his summers catching sockeye salmon. Instead of selling his fish through a series of middlemen before his sockeye ends up wrapped in plastic and sold in grocery stores across America, Cooke imports his catch home to Minnesota to be sold directly to consumers, grocery stores and restaurants by his company…