Bell Buoy Crab Co., in Seaside also smokes their own seafood. Smoked salmon at Bell Buoy is usually available in three brines, a simple regular brine, teriyaki and peppered. We consider ourselves a smaller operation, says retail manager Carroll Ragan. We don t use a big commercial smoker. We like the results we get from our smoker, which is about 10 feet wide and five feet deep.
Many smokers also offer strips of salmon smoked to a firm jerky.
Ecola Seafoods in Cannon Beach offers some of the best salmon jerky, thin firm strips, which have strong smokey and salty flavors. Some of the retailers also offer the ends and small pieces of smoked fish. These bits and pieces are often half the price of premium filets. Ecola Seafoods offers smoked salmon tips. It s an oilier part of the fish so the meat is moist, says Jay Bechman of Ecola Seafoods.