Closure of Chilkat Inlet to subsistence fishermen has been extended another week, due to a late and record-low showing of large kings moving into the river, state biologists said this week.
“We need to delay the subsistence opening. It’s definitely the case that the run is delayed or late and there’s a good chance (mature kings) are in Chilkat Inlet,” commercial fisheries biologist Mark Sogge said this week.
Fish and Game had planned to open…
