Three Native Alaskan organizations are seeking $240,985 in court costs from a Haines family in the aftermath of the litigation over access to a Chilkoot River fishing spot.

The family of Rosalie and Reuben Loewen and their three children make a fraction of that amount a year.

A few weeks ago, Superior Court Judge Philip Pallenberg ruled in Juneau that a public easement for vehicles to reach a dipnetting spot for eulachon – otherwise known…