(Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News) Steve Fossman fills his boat, Easy Street, up with ice before heading out to fish on July 6, 2024, in Haines, Alaska.

One bad year for Chilkoot salmon or serial mismanagement? That’s the distance between state fisheries managers and area gillnetters, who spoke last week at an annual post-season meeting about a decades-long controversy, and the future of the Lynn Canal’s wild-run salmon stocks. 

At the center of the debate is…

Will Steinfeld is a documentary photographer and reporter in Southeast Alaska, formerly in New England.