Commercial gillnetting moved to the mouth of the Chilkoot River this week as fishery managers sought to capitalize on sockeye escapement numbers into Chilkoot Lake that topped 80,000 Wednesday, the highest numbers by this time of the season since the weir started operating in 1976.
“It could be the largest run in a long time,” said commercial fisheries biologist Randy Bachman.
On Friday, July 20, 12,250 sockeye passed through Chilkoot weir, the largest, single-day escapement…
