Company | SeaBear Smokehouse | Anacortes, W Plump, delicious clams, herbs and spices are blended with hickory-smoked bacon and a full-bodied craft beer for a rich, creamy, warm-your-body-down- to-your-toes experience! Simply add milk or half & half while heating the Alehouse Clam Chowder. Or, if you prefer, add a can of tomato sauce for a creamy-tomato chowder. This smoked salmon company was established 1957 in Anacortes, Washington by Tom Savidge, a local fisherman and entrepreneur. The company started as Specialty Seafoods was later renamed SeaBear. Searching for a way to extend the shelf life of his smoked salmon without preservatives, Tom invented and patented the “retort” pouch, AKA the flexible can in the 1960’s introducing this innovative way to smoke and store salmon. Each smoked salmon is vacuum sealed in SeaBear's famous Gold Seal pouch and gently cooked in its own natural oils; this preserves the salmon naturally, so no refrigeration is required until opened.
