At $75-plus per pound, it wouldn't be the cheapest salmon you ever bought.

But how often do you get a chance to play commercial fisherman and help catch it?

Sara Pozonsky, of the improbably partly-in-Western Pennsylvania Wild Alaskan Salmon Co., is for the first time offering folks the chance to "live the life of a commercial fisherman" for a week this summer in Kasilof on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska.

"Get up early and stay up late, learn to set a net and when to check the nets for fish," says the description. "Experience picking fish out at sea, become an expert and identify different species of wild salmon, learn to drive a skiff, mend fishing nets, and jump in the slime line to gut your own fish."

You come back with 20 pounds of wild salmon -- canned, smoked, frozen or fresh.

You stay in quaint beach-bluff cabins and enjoy a big group salmon bake; other dinners are on your own, but you get continental breakfasts (featuring baked goods from the Moose is Loose) and lunches.

For up to four people, which is how many each cabin sleeps, the cost is $6,000. That brings the 80 pounds of salmon a foursome would get to $75 a pound before you figure in airfare, dinners and incidentals such as day trips and visits to area craft breweries.

The weeks: July 4-10, July 11-17, July 18-24 and July 25-31.

"It will be a blast," says Ms. Pozonsky, a native Alaskan and commercial fisherman's daughter who, in the fishing off-season, lives in Washington County and works sales and business development from here. She co-owns the company with Trish Kopp, who lives year-round in Alaska, from whence online customers and restaurants are supplied.

They've offered such trips in the past, except without the chance to go out on the commercial boat. That's subject to the vagaries of weather and the state wildlife agency, so it's not guaranteed, but, they say, "chances are good as this is during our typical fishing season!"

You can buy sport-fishing trips, cruises and other add-ons.

For more information, e-mail sara@seabeef.com or visit seabeef.com.

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