By now most everyone in Alaska has heard that the state’s oldest educational institution has closed — everyone but the fish. Tens of thousands of pink and chum salmon are now choking the inlet stream of the Sheldon Jackson College hatchery with coho soon to follow. The hatchery program manager and his assistant hope volunteers will step into the shoes of missing students and help keep the 32-year-old salmon program going.
Robert Woolsey, KCAW – Sitka
