Canning Oregon Albacore
Oregon State University published a resource that offers clear, step-by-step instructions on how to can many types of seafood, including tuna. You’ll be pleased to learn how simple it can be.
Canning Seafood
A Pacific Northwest Extension Publication, June 2008
Buy Oregon Albacore Direct
If you would like to buy tuna directly from a fisherman (who may deliver to locations near you), find a list of suppliers at www.oregonalbacore.org.
Custom-Canned Oregon Albacore
Look at your local grocer for custom-canned Oregon albacore. If they don’t carry it, ask them to in the future. You can also find a great deal on canned tuna by the case at www.localocean.net.
Read More
Read much more about Oregon albacore in Edible Portland’s fall issue.
Photo by John Valls
August 4th, 2011 at 5:01 pm
Hello!
Does anyone have any information on if any tuna have been for radiation levels from the Fukishima disaster? I love to can tuna but worry that the meat could be tainted due to radiactivity in the ocean from the nuclear disaster in Japan. Thanks!
August 10th, 2011 at 11:47 am
Jennie, The Oregon Albacore Commission has issued the following statement. You can find more info at their website, http://www.oregonalbacore.org.
“The Albacore tuna caught by the U.S. troll & pole fleet are migratory warm water fish. They journey widely across the Northern Pacific Ocean following patterns of warm water and feed. 10 years of tagging data show that these fish do not come anywhere close to the cold waters of Japan at this time of year and it is believed that these albacore tuna stocks are currently many hundreds if not thousands of miles away from Japan at this time.
The area where contaminated water was discharged into the sea is along the Japanese shoreline and that water has not transited far off-shore.
This diminishing radioactivity will likely dilute to undetectable levels along the Japanese coast and the migratory off-shore albacore tuna are expected to be completely unaffected by this event. “