Speaking only of subsistence gillnet users, better known as residents of Haines: Should a white or red king salmon come into contact with our 300-foot nets, we are required by law to release the king back into the water. Yaw, sure we do. Ha ha. If a king gets hung up in our net, then that fish is as good as dinner time.
“But it was dead, when we brought it in the boat, or perhaps…