Smaller salmon, fewer of them and reduced prices paid by buyers dropped the gross value of the Lynn Canal gillnet harvest to its lowest point in at least five years.
Based on figures from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, the value of the Lynn Canal gillnet fishery was $4.5 million in 2015, less than half of a $10.7 million season in 2014.
Fisherman Stuart DeWitt said that means “there were a lot of…
