Gillnetters are earning a little more for their salmon this season, but harvested fewer fish than expected during the season’s first opener.
“On Sunday, there was a marginal amount of fish, but on Monday it was dismally slow,” said gillnet skipper Matt Davis.
Mark Sogge, the Haines-based commercial fisheries biologist for the state Department of Fish and Game, said the fleet’s catch of hatchery chum is estimated at around 18,000 fish, far off projections of…
