A healthy plug of chum salmon and an improved price over last season bolstered the opening week of the Lynn Canal drift gillnet season.
Preliminary numbers showed more than 100 boats averaging about 580 chum salmon each during the two-day opening that started Sunday. “We had boats that had 300 to 400 chum right off the bat,” said Mark Sogge, commercial fish biologist for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
With sockeye numbers low,…
