Hold your nets! Chilkat Inlet subsistence fishery delayed another week

The Chilkat River in 2009. (Photo courtesy of Dave Bezaire/Flickr Creative Commons)Subsistence fishermen near Haines will have to wait another week to throw their nets into Chilkat Inlet. A need to conserve king salmon has prompted the second delay this season.
The subsistence fishery in Chilkat Inlet usually opens in June, at the same time as the first commercial gillnet opening. But this year, concerns over historically low king salmon numbers delayed the start of subsistence fishing there unt