Despite uncertainties about fish prices and workforce availability, the commercial fishing industry in Haines is gearing up for a relatively normal season, for now. Both Ocean Beauty’s Excursion Inlet facility and Haines Packing Company said they plan to operate this summer.
“We have been in business since 1910 and have never missed a salmon season in times of war, pandemic or for any other reason,” Ocean Beauty Seafoods president and CEO Mark Palmer said in…