I don't doubt your comment, but fishing at Peg during sockeye opening, I have never seen so many guide boats either across us or racing up & down to their spots. Do we see that traffic now after the fishery is closed? Have not returned to bb for springs so others may have a better observation.
One point about the goodness of the sockeye fishery is that it is a HOT fishery right in the middle of summer with gorgeous weather within 1 hr from Vancouver. It therefore allows the whole family to partake of the fishery, even camping out as a family unit. Just think about whole family sitting around camp fires, eating delicious BBQ sockeyes and watching the stars. If sockeye migrates like coho, it will be too late & summer break is over for the children. Perfect timing of a fishery. You can't say that with any other fisheries. They are either too cold, or not productive enough, or take too much skill to catch a fish, a task reserved for the pros & the eliites.
The problem of littering is universal to human nature, with or without sockeye fishery. Leadbelly, to compare Peg or people fishing at Peg to the pig farm & the butcher is really at bit too much and an apology should be owed to those fishermen.
I understand some will say this fishery is bad for kids to start and they will bring it to the smaller systems. Well, instead of shutting down the sockeye fishery, DFO should legislate leader length restriction in smaller systems. Fraser sockeye fishery should be given a special status as a 'food fishery' and bbing with longer leader allowed.