Subsistence fishermen who netted buckets of eulachon on the Chilkoot River late last week got another chance this week along the Chilkat, including at Jones Point.
“Lots of people were catching them out there yesterday,” Meredith Pochardt, executive director of the Takshanuk Watershed Council, said Wednesday.
Using mark-recapture technology, the council has been estimating the eulachon return to the Chilkoot River since 2010. This year’s run of 1.8 million of the smelt-like fish compares to…
