It’s looking like a lousy king salmon year and it’s too early to know much about sockeye returns, but the Haines fishing fleet is harvesting a solid return of hatchery chums.
“Everyone’s bringing in enhanced chums,” said Wyatt Rhea-Fournier, Alaska Department of Fish and Game Lynn Canal (District 15) area management biologist for commercial fisheries.
“They are big and bright,” Rhea-Fournier said Tuesday of the Douglas Island Pink and Chum (DIPAC) Juneau hatchery returns netted…
