The Upper Lynn Canal Fish and Game Advisory Committee is taking a small step toward addressing ongoing tension between commercial and subsistence Dungeness crabbers in Haines.
The committee voted at its Jan. 22 meeting to organize a subcommittee charged with putting together a proposal that would close commercial crabbing a quarter-mile from the shoreline during the summer commercial crabbing season.
The closure would reach from Letnikof Point to the southern tip of Kochu Island on…
