The chum salmon are creating a plentiful harvest for gillnetters, who have turned out en masse to bring in the bounty.
“The early part of the season is going very well and as anticipated for the chum return,” said Randy Bachman with Alaska Department of Fish and Game commercial fishery division in Haines.
Bachman said officials are predicting a harvest of between 500,000 and 600,000. As a result, boats from outside the immediate Haines area…
