Boost expected for fish tax revenues
Despite relatively low salmon harvest numbers in the Lynn Canal this season, Haines Packing Company processed 2.5 million pounds of salmon—the most since Harry Rietze took over the plant at Letnikof Cove in 2013.
Forty gillnetters, or about two-thirds of the Haines fleet, landed their fish at Letnikof. That’s a 60% increase from last year.
Haines’s biggest processor, OBI Seafoods’ plant at Excursion Inlet, didn’t operate this season due…