I heard that ex-vessel prices for chum, gillnet silvers, and steelhead are up the last 3 or so years from a number of years of low prices. A lot of boats didn't fish when the prices were too low for the effort to be economical. It's profitable enough now that the fleet will fish down to the escapement goal if allowed. There have been several years of over-escaped chum and in some cases, silvers, due to the vagaries of the marketplace.

Sg