The final year of a three-year study on eulachon runs in the Chilkat Valley documented an estimated return of 7.1 million of the smelt-like fish to the Chilkoot River.
The study, administered by Takshanuk Watershed Council for the Chilkoot Indian Association, is the first of its kind here on eulachon, a subsistence staple for Alaska Natives sometimes called “Tlingit penicillin.”
No counts were done on the Chilkat River side, where the braided and silty nature…
