Photo: Setting up the pens

Fish culturist Chris Holmes and Mike Enders slowly push a structure to hold eight fish pens down Gastineau Channel on Monday. The pen will be anchored near Sheep Creek and stocked with chum salmon fry from the Douglas Island Pink & Chum fish hatchery in two to three weeks. Sheep Creek is one of five sites DIPAC raises young fish until their release into the wild in early summer.

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