Not a whole lot of reason happening in this thread, but I'll throw in my two cents. First off, not sure why someone would join a group then immediately question why they did it. Sounds like something my wife does with a pair of jeans. When men buy a pair of pants, they make sure they fit. Second, for those of you who have not witnessed the pink and chum salmon fishery in SE Alaska, JoJo is absolutely correct. The picture posted by Dogfish is a purse of humpies being hauled aboard a purse seiner. Having grown up in Sitka and having generations of family who have owned and ran purse seiners and trollers, as well as an uncle who is the undisputed highliner in Sitka, I have seen many bags of humpies hauled in. The humpie and chum seine fisheries in AK are typically done at terminal areas. The seiners are NOT catching many pinks or chum bound for BC or WA. Additionally, the chinook and coho bound for Anthony's are not typically seine caught. One interesting thing to ponder is that the charter fleet in communities like Sitka continue to get an increasingly larger share of the allocation pie than the commercials. Tourism and the money brought in by charters and lodges is the cash cow in Sitka. The charters send a fleet out of Sitka all day every day for 5-6 months straight chasing kings and coho, while the commercials fight for openings to target these same fish. I would guarantee there are people on this thread right now that have caught kings out of SE AK that were bound for our rivers.