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Seiners in the 1920s from the book The Silver Years What are overall themes and ideas that should be included in the signs overall?

What should be on a sign about longlining in Sitka? Ideas for text: How it is done, target species, features of a longline boat History: 1860s, shore stations, salt; halibut fleet enabled by refrigeration and trains; used to be dories, then catching from mother boat; overfishing, IPHC, Magnuson-Stevens, Japanese fishery, longline boom; IFQs; now King and Winge rescue story? story of the boat? Small businesses, typical crew size, size and value of catch, where sold, how proces

What should be on a sign about Seining in Sitka? Ideas for text: How seining works History: from shore, rowboats, controlled by canneries and salteries; motors, independent fishermen; fishery dominated by Alaska Native fishermen thru 1970s; poor runs, fluctuations of industry, catches and value over time, size of fleet over time problem with cannery traps, how statehood issue was abolishing traps; Seiners in Sitka now, how many, value, product, how processed and where sold,

What should be included on a sign about trolling? Ideas for text: How trolling works Small businesses, often one or two, size of the Sitka troll fleet, value Where they fish, what they fish for, where it gets sold, how it's processed from boat to table Clean, well managed fishery, healthy food History of trolling: 1900s, rowboats, only kings, depended on refrigeration, salting into tierces; mostly immigrants from lower 48 and northern Europe; motors introduced to the boats te

A Merrill photo of men and a boy with a net in a canoe What should be included on a sign about Tlingit fishing? Ideas for text: 1000s of years, managed, importance halibut: how fished, preserved salmon: some of the ways fished, preserved crab, octopus, clams, how, importance herring and eggs, how fished, preserved Law and access over time, advocacy people in Sitka connected to this place thru food how much we consume now, importance Ideas for images: Old fish trap, how it wor

A gillnetter built in Sitka by Harry Jimmy What should be included in a sign about other commercial fisheries in Sitka? Ideas for text: Gillnetting, how it's done Gillnetting, history: Columbia River, Bristol Bay, when in southeast Dive fisheries, how done, what targeted, history of it Crab and shrimp, how done, overview of history Economic value, small business, where it goes Ideas for images: Gillnetter, showing how gear works crab boat, how gear works dive boat, how it wor