For commercial fishermen in Lynn Canal this year, size matters.
Department of Fish and Game biologist Mark Sogge said sockeye salmon returning to the Chilkoot and Chilkat rivers this week were a “healthy” weight, but it’s still too early to know if smaller-sized fish that diminished the value of the commercial gillnet fishery last year will return again this year.
Gillnetting begins Sunday at noon, with a two-day opening below Talsani Island and only on…
