For the third time since 2004, Lynn Canal Conservation says it has evidence of Chilkat River Adventures tour company damaging fish habitat in the upper Chilkat River. LCC filed a complaint with the state Division of Parks recently, providing what it says are photographs of the company violating its permit 27 times in July and August. The alleged violations came […]

Alaska State Trooper Josh Bentz of Juneau and residents Andrea Nelson and Dave Folletti spent more than 13 hours on a log in the upper Chilkat River after their boat flipped while moose hunting the night of Sept. 17. Their ordeal began when engine difficulties prevented them from avoiding a log extending into the river, sometimes called […]

Northern Chilkat Inlet and sections of the Chilkat River will remain closed to subsistence, sport and commercial fishing through July 31 to protect king salmon returning to spawning beds. The closure extends from a regulatory marker north of the Letnikof Cove boat ramp to Milepost 19 on Haines Highway and for a one-mile section north of Wells […]

A jury of six Haines residents on June 13 unanimously found that, based on evidence presented, it can be presumed that Jason Allgood died on June 16, 2010. He is believed to have fallen into the Chilkat River and drowned while subsistence fishing. Allgood, who worked at the U.S. border at Dalton Cache, was fishing alone near […]

Fish and Game sportfish biologist Rich Chapell this week said the Chilkat River king salmon run appears to be running short of escapement goals. “We’re worried about meeting our escapement goals in the Chilkat River. We were hoping for a late run, but now it’s very late,” Chapell said this week. “We’re on track for not meeting the […]

The final year of a three-year study on eulachon runs in the Chilkat Valley documented an estimated return of 7.1 million of the smelt-like fish to the Chilkoot River. The study, administered by Takshanuk Watershed Council for the Chilkoot Indian Association, is the first of its kind here on eulachon, a subsistence staple for Alaska […]

Josh Bentz leads the 34th annual King Salmon Derby after the Memorial Day weekend, with a 30.4-pound catch. “It jumped clean out of the water and almost hit the boat,” Bentz said. The derby continues 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. this weekend, June 2-3. The competition offers more than $19,000 in cash and prizes and […]

Residents collected more than four tons of garbage during the annual community cleanup this month. The total included 159 bags of trash turned in to Community Waste Solutions, plus 4.5 tons of non-bagged items, said Jamie Knudsen, office manager for the Haines Chamber of Commerce. “I was really pleased with how the community and all […]