Sign Five: Tlingit Fishing

What should be included on a sign about Tlingit fishing?

Ideas for text:

• 1000s of years, managed, importance

• Sitka Sound pristine when Native managed

• halibut: how fished, preserved

• salmon: some of the ways fished, preserved then and now

• crab, octopus, clams, how, managed, importance

• herring and eggs, how fished, preserved

• Law and access over time, advocacy

• people in Sitka connected to this place thru food

• how much Sitkans consume now, importance

Ideas for images:

• Old fish trap, how it worked

• halibut hook, how it works

• herring branches being gathered now

• herring, seaweed, Tlingit names, how they live

• traditional smokehouse(s)

• Merrill photo of canoe and fishermen