I was going to continue the story of the trip to Wainwright, but then there was a knock at the door. Mike & Patsy Aamodt have a net out by Nuvuk, and often stop by to check on the proceedings (Mike was once an archaeologist, among many other things). They stopped by on the way home from checking their net, and were kind enough to share two Dolly Vardens from their catch.
They were alive until a couple of hours ago, and one went straight to the oven and the other got vacuum sealed and went straight to the freezer.
Super tasty! Thanks so much to Mike & Patsy!
Dolly Varden “trout” are actually char and can either be sea-run, spending part of their lives at sea, or landlocked, spending their entire lives in freshwater. The name comes from a character in a Charles Dickens novel, who had a polka-dot dress, and after whom a type of 1870’s fashion was named. The fish was probably named after the fashion.
I am going to save the skeleton for a comparative specimen.
Out of Ice and Time 