After more than a year Haines and Skagway have a sport fishing area management biologist again. 

John Whitinger, is a biologist and Alaskan who says he is most drawn to looking at the entire ecosystem when considering the health of individual fish stocks. 

He was born in Kodiak but described a childhood commercial fishing throughout Southeast Alaska.  The 32-year-old is Aleut and has family on Prince of Wales, in Ketchikan and Sitka. “Everywhere I go,…

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...