Vehicles are now legally allowed to access a popular hooligan dipnetting spot near the Chilkoot River Bridge.
Last week, Superior Court Judge Philip Pallenberg ruled in Juneau that a public easement for vehicles to reach the dipnetting spot for eulachon – otherwise known as hooligan or candlefish – exists on the land of Reuben and Rosalie Loewen along the river.
That easement exists only for a short time in the spring when the anadromous fish…
