I think it was my first yeasr of guiding in S.E Alaska when I learned that the Yukon River was closed to the native's subsistence fishing due to a lack of returning chinook. Incidently, one of the other guides at Whalers Cove, was Ed Jones, a recently retired fish bio from Alaska. Ed said that the huge trawl fishery for cod and pollock had a very high rate of chinook bi catch, and that was the biggest factor in reducing the Yukon run. What really got me, is that many of the Alaska natives (and Alaska is a big place) actually lived off the land, more or less. In the small village of Angoon, near our lodge, the residents went fishing and berry picking and hunting on their time off rather that playing softball. The young men in the village all wanted to be fishermen, and the young women seemed to want to get out of town. Doubly interesting that the frozen bait herring that we used, dozens of cases of them, were from Puget Sound Herring Sales!