{"id":4650,"date":"2019-05-17T13:21:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T18:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=4650"},"modified":"2019-05-17T13:21:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T18:21:53","slug":"seasons-first-wild-copper-river-salmon-arrives-in-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=4650","title":{"rendered":"Season&#8217;s First Wild Copper River Salmon Arrives in Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SEATTLE, May 17, 2019 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; About 18,000 pounds of fresh Copper River salmon arrived on a fish-filled Alaska Airlines plane touching down at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport shortly after 6:30 a.m. Today officially marks the start of the salmon season that is anticipated by seafood lovers throughout the Pacific Northwest and beyond. By noon, Alaska Air Cargo is expected to deliver a total of 50,000 pounds of Copper River salmon to the Lower 48 with more scheduled on later flights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Salmon.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Salmon.jpg 400w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Salmon-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption> Alaska Airlines pilots hold up the first Copper River Salmon upon arrival in Seattle <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/737.jpg?fit=640%2C360\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/737.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/737-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/737-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/737-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Click the link for the full story! <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/alaska-air-cargo-brings-seasons-170900746.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/alaska-air-cargo-brings-seasons-170900746.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 18,000 pounds of fresh Copper River salmon arrived on a fish-filled Alaska Airlines plane touching down at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport shortly after 6:30 a.m. Today officially marks the start of the salmon season that is anticipated by seafood lovers throughout the Pacific Northwest and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[797,89,4552,2203,1397,868],"tags":[539,118,92,847,3282,160,4729,1293,4723,4720,1671,4728,4721,4734,199,2792,4732,412,4297,4302,1016,2452,2708,4471,4725,4731,1554,247,4724,4733,4727,4726,4730,1013,4722],"class_list":["post-4650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airline-news","category-aviation-news","category-cargo-news","category-finance-news","category-stock-news","category-transportation-news","tag-air","tag-airlines","tag-airport","tag-alaska","tag-anchorage","tag-aviation","tag-beauty","tag-cargo","tag-copper","tag-cordova","tag-first","tag-fishermen","tag-fresh","tag-grocery","tag-international","tag-king","tag-lover","tag-news","tag-northwest","tag-ocean","tag-pacific","tag-prnewswire","tag-restaurant","tag-river","tag-salmon","tag-seafood","tag-season","tag-seattle","tag-sockeye","tag-store","tag-tacoma","tag-thirty","tag-trident","tag-washington","tag-wild"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4653,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4650\/revisions\/4653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}