Nicole Zeiser is moving from Yakutat. Photo courtesy of Nicole
Zeiser.

Nicole Zeiser, Haines’ new Alaska Department of Fish and Game commercial fisheries biologist, starts work on March 1.

Zeiser is replacing Wyatt Rhea-Fournier who for the first time managed the gillnet fishery last year, and took a job in Homer after the fall dog season. Zeiser is taking the helm of a fishery that’s complicated by dwindling king salmon returns and unprecedented restrictions. Fish…