Chinook opening

AREA 4 COMMERCIAL GILLNET CATCHES
DATE : Mon July 7
# of Boats: 78
Hours Open: 30
Boat Days: 98
SOCKEYE : 346
CHINOOK: 2182
Heres the results of the 30 hour chinook opening. 78 boats caught 2182 chinook in a 30 hour opening. Thats an average of about 28 fish per boat...If a boat uses a few hundred litres of fuel to partake, plus the fishers time, it really makes you wonder how much these guys are making doing this? But when you learn a 25lb chinook is worth about 90 bucks to a fisher the economics start to make more sense.
Yet despite the so-called "chinook selective" large mesh size net they still managed to catch a few hundred sockeye during the opening....so much for the 'selective' nature of large mesh size gillnets theory as sockeye arent close to chinook size are they?Wonder how many steelhead were encountered? If that 'chinook' net could catch sockeye, then it sure could easily catch steelhead. How would this 'chinook' net differentiate between a 20lb chinook and a 20lb steelhead...? You would think that 78 boats fishing 1600 feet of net each for 30 hours in the Skeena rivermouth just might encounter a steelhead or two....as Tyee numbers show steelhead migrating through the area.But, obviously there is no mention of steelhead caught on the DFO website.