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[ynot]

I like deep fried chum fish and chips tastes like cod. bright fish only.

[mcallagan]

You can receive the openings for all the West Coast or just what you really want by e-mail from the DFO.
Here's the link:

http://www-ops2.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fns-sap/index-eng.cfm?pg=pub_reg

[Tangles]

Chum is actually quite heavily commercially harvested for a variety of different products. It is sold on fillets as well as a whole fish when harvested in the ocean, it's also used in most salmon burgers, salmon candy, jerkies and even dog food.
I've also heard from oldtimers about Stave's stock being on the decline for the past 6-7 years, I don't know if I remember right but I was reading somewhere that the entire Fraser Chum run is something like 900 000 fish.
Considering the small numbers, relatively small profit per pound, and the already present wild Coho and Steelhead, it's beyond my understanding why there's any commercial openings AT ALL.
Just read the other day that Thompson steelhead this year is estimated to be down to 900 adult spawners.. just short of the 10,000 in 1980.

[Dave]

just short of the 100,000 in 1980.

Great post until that ... did you mean 10,000?  even that number is probably high ...
Chum, imo, are far more valuable to a watershed like the Chilliwack for the gull, dipper, crow and eagle populations that rely on them, the fry they produce that juvenile coho and steelhead parr love to eat, and the nutrients their carcasses release into the ecosystem to produce healthy populations of invertebrates - future fish food.

I agree, these fish should not be harvested, for so many reasons, especially after the glut this summer.

[Tangles]

Great post until that ... did you mean 10,000?

Yes, I meant 10,000, I'll correct my post, thank you.