I should have been on the Fraser and not in kindergarten 
Here's me with a boot circa 1995, Like Rod this fishery is not about numbers, not about how many you can catch, its memories like these, I casted the rod, i reeled it in and landed it myself, I made my dad take this photo despite his protest lol
Heres some info from the 1995 return
The return of 12,877,000 Fraser River pink salmon (Table 10) was 72% as large as the preseason forecast of 18,000,000 fish. This total included a catch of 5,703,000 fish, which represents
a 44% harvest rate, and a spawning escapement of 7,174,000 fish. Canadian, United States and
Panel approved test fishing catches were 3,585,000, 2,029,000 and 89,000 fish, respectively. The
commercial catch was 5,256,000 fish.
The gross landed value of the commercial catch was approximately $6,300,000 (Can) with a
weight of 9,000,000 kg (19,800,000 lb).
The average size of pink salmon caught by purse seines in Area 20 in 1995 was 1.71 kg (3.77
lb), slightly smaller than the previous record for the smallest size that occurred in 1993 (1.72 kg,
3.8 lb) (Figure 6). Average pink salmon weights between 1987-95 (1.87 kg, 4.11 lb) were
approximately 84% as large as during the 1979-85 period (2.21 kg, 4.87 lb), when run sizes
increased to present levels (14,000,000 - 19,000,000 fish on odd-year runs), and about 72% as
high as during the 1959-77 period (2.59 kg, 5.72 lb). In terms of total pink salmon biomass, the
smaller body size of Fraser pinks has been more than compensated for by larger abundances in
recent years. However, smaller fish have less market appeal than the larger fish of past years.
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