Frustration among Lynn Canal gillnetters about state fisheries management grew this week after Alaska Department of Fish and Game staff declined to attend a public meeting with the fleet.
Local gillnetters have spoken for weeks about decreased numbers of wild-run salmon, including Chilkoot sockeye, whose population, Fish and Game biologists say, will undershoot the state sustainability goal for this year.
Many fishermen have attributed that sockeye population drop to the state’s management of the purse…
