I too agree with Parker, I cure up all the eggs I harvest from my fish through the year, they all seem to work if cured the right way! I don't use the Pink or Chum eggs though, and I don't keep those nasty lil things either! There eggs are also more oval than round if u take a good look at them anyway! I too have also never seen any sockeye that I've caught have mature eggs, so never used them, so don't have anything to say about them either! Fish On, Chris