High water frustrates local fish counts
High dock prices and a strong sockeye salmon catch have kept hope afloat for the Lynn Canal commercial drift gillnet fishery, which opened June 19 with a lower-than-usual chum salmon harvest.
Salmon prices at fish processor Haines Packing Co. have started where they left off last year: Chum topped $1 per pound and sockeye went for above $2.
Lynn Canal gillnetters caught about 96 king, 2,112 sockeye, 10 coho…