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Sign Five: Tlingit Fishing

  • Writer: rebeccapoulson
    rebeccapoulson
  • Dec 8, 2025
  • 1 min read

Updated: 23 hours ago


A Merrill photo of men and a boy with a net in a canoe
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 worked

  • halibut hook, how it works

  • herring branches now

  • herring, seaweed, Tlingit names, how they live

  • traditional smokehouse

  • Merrill photo of canoe and fish


 
 
 

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