(Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News) Matt Davis fuels up his boat, Aftermath, before heading out to fish on July 6, 2024, in Haines, Alaska.
Matt Davis fuels up his boat, Aftermath, before heading out to fish on July 6, in Haines. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)

Federal disaster aid is on the way for some commercial fishing permit-holders in Haines and throughout the state, though many may be too wrapped up in the current season to apply for it right away.

Applications for crew and subsistence usersare currently available online. Unique applications for permit-holders and processors from the Pacific…

Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the...