Alaska Wild Salmon Skin Jewelry- Harvested in Bristol Bay, AK
Welcome to Beyond Ocean AK. We create jewelry from AK Wild salmon skin that is harvested from Bristol Bay, AK!
This is my storefront for you to purchase items for yourself, friends and family year round.
First and foremost I started this business because I love salmon and have been interested in working with salmon leather for years. I am a second generation fisherman in Alaska and literally started eating salmon in the womb. My parents had both been in the industry for 20 years before I was born. People ask what salmon means to me and it’s always been an easy response, “Salmon is life.”
I started fishing as a 9 year old gill netting the Alaska Peninsula fishery known as Area-M with my family. I was raised with no illusions as to how my family had food and a home. We worked together to raise an income that allowed us to live a most rewarding life on Alaskan waters and that connected us to an incredibly talented, kind and ingenuity filled community of coastal people.
My awe of salmon paired with the importance this fish has on so many lives as well as the health of our ecosystems is a huge reason I work with salmon leather. Salmon is the primary connector between many of relationships that I have built over my lifetime, and I know this is also true for for so many other people in the Pacific Northwest.
Many people have a salmon story of their own and my products allow for people to strike up and share these. My hope is that these pieces help people promote their livelihood in the fishing industry in a subtle, yet bold manner. I would like for people to share their salmon stories and create dialogue about the value of these creatures.
Expect quality, and a piece that reflects variation found in nature. Each piece of jewelry made from Alaskan salmon skin is unlike any other. Scales of salmon are like fingerprints, no one scale is quite the same as the next. One of the aspects that I enjoy the most about creating with salmon skin is the variation in color that I get to work with from 1 fillet (1 side of salmon). The spine of the salmon is the darkest in color and the belly is the lightest. The tanned salmon skin shows off this transition in color and many of the products demonstrate this.
Thank you for supporting Alaska’s wild salmon and the people who work in this industry. We are constantly trying to maintain the health of our rivers and oceans and take care of our salmon. Choose WILD SALMON ALWAYS!
With love,
Morgan Edminster