Catches were down but prices were up in the first week of the Lynn Canal commercial gillnet fishery.
A dry spring may be keeping hatchery chums from finding their imprint streams, said fisherman Norman Hughes.
“It’s just a slow start. I think there are fish out there but the fresh water’s not here to bring them in. They’re somewhere else,” Hughes said.
Sixty-five boats fished District 15, with only a few north of Point Sherman.…