Commercial chum fisheries are the bane of steelhead runs in many areas...Hood Canal, the Thompson River, and the entire Skeena system...areas with historically great runs of steelhead.

The steelhead have been, are, and will continue to be, snapped up in those chum fisheries.

The lack of chums on the Snohomish and Skagit systems over the past several years has been nothing sort of a monumental disappointment...besides the ease of catching a few dozen in a day rather easily, they are also the backbone of the eagle watching industry, and provide millions of tons of marine biomass to the upper watersheds of those systems, which feeds all the fish and wildlife up there, including wild steelhead.

This is mainly run by the roe fishery, as even with recent increased prices the carcasses aren't worth the gas to go out and catch them...the market for the roe is ridiculous, however,

Fish on...

Todd