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This week was the first opener of the commercial salmon fishing season. The runs in Lynn Canal are predicted to be strong, but the prices are low. And, the king troll fishery in southeast will be open, afer all. And, the Haines Volunteer Fire Department was called in to extinguish a burning vehicle on Tuesday night.
The Haines Borough started an effort to come up with a plan for the next decade. Consultants with the firm Agnew-Beck are in town and have initiated the dialogue to rewrite the borough’s comprehensive plan. The document will guide borough policy, and residents eagerly contributed to the conversation.
 An author who has spent her career salmon trolling in Southeast Alaska has published a new collection of essays, at a time when the industry itself is at risk.
 Tele Aadsen’s book is titled What Water Holds, and it is both a memoir of a life spent fishing, and a celebration of the marine environment that makes that life possible.
 Aadsen recently spoke with KCAW’s Robert Woolsey.
Today in the news Skagway’s local government is discussing how to handle the transit of bulk minerals in the future. The assembly is currently working on a resolution requiring a sealed container system, but assembly members are open to other technologies that would allow for an environmentally responsible way to handle the materials. And, thousands of cyclists had a great day on Saturday.
Today, tribes in the region are uniting to ask stronger conservation measures for salmon, and a mine on admiralty island was fined by the EPA for mishandling toxic waste
The Haines borough hired a consulting company to write a new comprehensive plan. The document will guide local decision making for the next decade.
A Haines man was arrested at the airport. The Haines Borough Police Department found a large amount of drugs on his person. And the Haines borough assembly certified the results of the special election, and decided on how to implement the change in borough charter.
Someone has started cutting trails in the area under consideration for seismic testing by Constantine., despite the company having not yet received a permit from the Department of Natural resources.