Fresh fish starts rolling in GREENPEACE: Carrs/Safeway tops national seafood sustainability list.

For those looking for a taste of fresh fish, Dannon Southall at 10th & M Seafoods in Anchorage has some good news: "The deep blue sea is in the giving mood as always this week. Fresh halibut is still rolling across the docks."
Southall says they will have fresh fish all week at $19.95 per pound for fillets. They also have headed and gutted halibut available for those looking for a better price and more fish. If salmon is on the fish wish list, Southeast troll-caught kings are available for $18.95 per pound for fillets and $14.95 per pound for head-on fish, which weigh typically 12 to 15 pounds.
"These amazing treats will look great on your barbeque this week while grilling with the spring sun shining down on us," Southall says. "Pair these amazing trolls with the wonderful spot shrimp from Prince William Sound and you will be in a Alaskan seafood bliss."
The spot shrimp should be available Friday.
Fresh rockfish, sole fillets and catfish are all available for $8.95 per pound. Other options from Outside waters include spearfish ($7.95/pound), grill-grade tuna ($9.95/pound) and sushi-grade tuna ($19.95/pound).
There is good news for those who spend time at Carrs/Safeway markets looking for seafood.
Safeway, which operates more than 1,700 stores including those in Alaska, claimed the top spot in the Greenpeace seafood sustainability report, released earlier this month.
Safeway was praised for discontinuing sales of "red-list," or unsustainably caught, species, including orange roughy.
"Safeway broke new ground with this new report," says Casson Trenor, senior markets campaigner for Greenpeace.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Safeway's move into first place from its fourth-place ranking last year was due in part to the company's involvement in fishery improvement projects to rebuild fish stocks. Other local shopping options ranked include Target (tied for second), Costco (11th) and Walmart (13th).
Greenpeace used four criteria to determine seafood retailer rankings in its fifth Carting Away the Oceans report: seafood purchasing policy, participation in political or conservation initiatives, transparency about what is being sold at the point of sale and how many types of red-list fish a retailer sells.

Farmers markets
Alex Davis and Duane Clark won't be alone at the University Center this week for the Center Market.
Davis says Matanuska Creamery is joining the market this week (11 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday). Mile 5.2 Greenhouse will be at Saturday's market.
Davis plans to be restocked on pork products this week. If butchering and preparation goes as planned, he will have fresh chops and roasts today; he will definitely have ground pork, Italian sausage, breakfast sausage and spicy sausage. He also plans to have a 70-pound barbecue pig with him at the market.
Other items include organic parsnips and German butterball potatoes, along with five varieties of jam, 90 dozen chicken eggs and seven dozen duck eggs. New this week is goat cheese from Cranberry Ridge Farm, including a feta-type cheese and a farmer's cheese that Davis describes as "like a curd but it does not melt." He invites shoppers to stop by Saturday's market for "a special treat." More information is available at www.adfarmorganic.com.
Clark will have grass-fed beef from the Valley, frozen Alaska seafood, local honey, French Oven bakery products and popcorn. For more information, visit www.countryhealthfoods.com.

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Steve Edwards lives and writes in Anchorage. If you have a suggestion for a future Market Fresh column, please contact him at sedwards@adn.com.