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[dennisK]

If we don't buy it, they won't fish for it.

Just boycott all salmon sales.

Why not?

If we REALLY want to get the salmon back in strong numbers - what better way then eliminating the financial motive of salmon sellers?

My local Theftway has fresh salmon sockeye fillets for $8.99 a pound.

If we can't catch it for food, lets just eat cheeseburgers and pepsi.

[DragonSpeed]

If we don't buy it, they won't fish for it.

Just boycott all salmon sales.

Why not?

If we REALLY want to get the salmon back in strong numbers - what better way then eliminating the financial motive of salmon sellers?

My local Theftway has fresh salmon sockeye fillets for $8.99 a pound.

It's possible (and likely) that the local stores that are selling sockeye are selling fish caught from strong runs such as the Copper River etc... 

[Nicole]

I wish we could find out where the sockeye come from... If you asked the manager, would they know?

It would be easiest to just boycot all sockeye...  At what point would you say the only fresh sockeye will be fraser?

I thought the northern sales had wound down, and nothern supplies were dwindling.

The other option would be to stake out the entrances to the cheam fishing ground, and follow where the trucks go... Then picket the commercial buyers..

Then also picket all stores who buy from them.

This could be really fun!
Nicole

[Fish Assassin]

I asked the sales clerk at Save On where they get their sockeyes and her response was "up north"

[BwiBwi]

Too bad Rodney is a nice guy.  He should use those footage he took last year and have different media cover the story.  Reality Show - True nature of some of our "nature loving" people.

[Griz]

Save On Foods sockeye comes from the Copper R. in Alaska.

[adriaticum]

Boycott salmon fishing as well.

[DragonSpeed]

Save On Foods sockeye comes from the Copper R. in Alaska.

Costco sox had it on the package.  Copper R.

[Sam Salmon]

There's an angle to this Copper River fish that I haven't talked about much on the fishing sites maybe it's time I did.

First off Canadian companies own a lot of the fish processing plants in Alaska many plants are wholly owned/controlled by Canadian concerns.

This enables them to process/sell  their product more easily in the USA-more power to them once upon a time they were getting top dollar (US$).

Now an anomaly has appeared-many more times the amount of the total Copper River run is being labeled as Copper River-millions of fish are being marketed after the real Copper River run is over-ever wonder why?

Money that's why!

Why sell a Skeena or Nass or Blueberry river fish for Canadian dollars when you can slap a label on it and sell it for US$ as the mythical quality product from the C*pp*r R*v*r?

And that is just what's happening-remember there are no labeling laws that apply-call it fish-from-the-dark-side-of-the-moon and some people will believe you and pay a lot of money for it.

It's all marketing Bee Ess and greed.

[gman]

I was at Langara Island (Northern Queen Charllotes) last week. There appeared to be lots of sockeye around, and lots of commercial boats salmon fishing. I believe that these boats were fishing for sockeye. I am sure that many of those sockeye were headed for the Fraser.