Tlingit fishermen say the recent eulachon harvest was robust enough to provide subsistence needs for another year.
The smell of their success hung over pullouts near 4 Mile Haines Highway recently, as the annual production of eulachon oil got under way.
On Friday, May 17, Alden Paddock and Richard Warren stood around their respective vats full of nearly-boiling water and rancid fish carcasses, carefully nursing the mixtures for hours on end in order to produce…
