The Chilkat river king salmon run returned in high-numbers to spawn this summer — the first season after the run was removed from the state-designated stock of concern list.
For much of the last decade and a half, king salmon, or chinook, arrived to spawning streams up the Chilkat in numbers below what state biologists considered sustainable.
From 2011 to 2018, the population came in below state sustainability benchmarks six out of seven years. In…
