The highest salmon prices in a decade or more are boosting the Lynn Canal gillnet fishery.
Prices for chum are up to 70 cents per pound, up from 50 cents at the end of last season. Per pound pink salmon prices are up from 28 cents to 50 cents. Sockeye prices are up to $1.70 per pound from $1.30 last year and went as high as $2 at the start of the season.
Lowly pink,…
