Haines Borough income from the state’s raw fish tax has hit a 25-year high – $438,390. That’s about twice last year’s fish tax income of $172,511 and $93,000 more than the $345,000 projected.
The borough’s big bump owes largely to a record pink salmon harvest in 2013, including more than 20 million pounds of pinks processed at the Ocean Beauty Seafoods plant at Excursion Inlet. Pinks represented about 60 percent of the 36 million pounds…