Commercial troller Lindsay Johnson had just limped out of the hospital in Juneau last week when she looked at a text on her phone: the commercial chinook troll fishery was back on after a federal court decision this spring put the entire fishery on hold.

“It’s exciting but it’s also like, ‘Oh god, what do we have to do immediately?” said Johnson.

She and partner Graham Kraft sprung to work on boat projects on the…