First, you do want to make sure you are dealing with spruce, not fir or pine since they may not be so desirable for your purpose. The picture looks a bit on the 'pink' side for spruce.
Pitch streaks are OK in something you build for yourself, but most folks like the look of 'clear' top woods, it seems, so if for sale or for a gift a different top might be a better bet. (Reasonable-looking tops aren't very expensive.)
Myself, I kinda like the stripey look.
Cheers
John

Doug Fir vs Larch...

Both look the same, smell the same, tool the same...in fact they are grouped together as one wood and sold as Spruce Pine Fir ~ SPF but often the fir is really larch. Few can tell the difference. However larch is 3-4 times heavier than fir. A lotta tops out there sold as fir are really larch. DF stays green all year, larch losses its needles and looks dead in the winter.

Yes SPF have pitch pockets with fir being the worst of the three however Larch is notorious for pitch pockets. Days, weeks months , even years later larch will just open up a grain line and out pours sap.

Once was doing an arch top...at the scraping stage the pocket opened up rendering an undesirable sound hole by the time I got all that pitch out. Ah yes a bondo moment for sure it was. Fortunately it was an experimental build and not a clients.

Removing a pitch grain line is a real pain. First you split it, then you scrape back to the next grain line on both halves, then you bring the two halves together with just enough pressure to pull through sandpaper...Floss sand edges and reglue. usually comes out unnoticeable but gee dude, ya really gotta need or want that particular piece of wood to go through all that hassle.

Well thats my BS and me sticken to it.


Blessings

Padma