The value of salmon caught by gillnetters in the Lynn Canal rebounded this year from a major 2015 drop.
In 2014, gillnetters in the north and central Lynn Canal caught $10.7 million worth of fish – an amount that nose-dived to $4.5 million in 2015. But the 2016 figure jumped back up to roughly $6 million, said Mark Sogge, a commercial fisheries biologist for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
The total salmon harvest…
