I live in Haida Gwaii and watched a 737 land last weekend full of fishermen. They were spirited off to a number of lodges by HeliJet to enjoy a fully open Chinook fishery. Haida Gwaii does boast an amazing abundance of fish for a short period of time before they travel south to their spawning grounds, but I cannot understand how this fishery is still open and the southern ocean and river recreational fisheries are closed and or curtailed in the name of conservation? Are the fish being caught by the hundreds of rich patrons of these lodges ($6,000 per week) not the same fish that the DFO is looking to preserve down south? Each of these lodges takes in between 20 and 100 guests a week and the local airport literally has shipping container coolers Sitting in the airport parking lot keep the boxes of fish that the lodge guests haul out (almost all take their full limit home) cool before they fly home. As residents, it is not uncommon to be bumped from your flight to accommodate the lodge guests and their 50lb boxes of salmon fillets that they are packing out to fly home with. Last year, these lodges harvested over 25,000 Chinook. I would like to know if anyone has brought this up with their local representatives?