Sign Four: Gillnetting and Everything Else

What should be included in a sign about other commercial fisheries in Sitka?

Ideas for text:

• Gillnetting, how it's done, fish at passes or along the beach

• 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, intensively managed

  Ideas for images:

• Gillnetter, showing how gear works

• crab pot under water with crab in it

• dive boat (Death Barge?), graphics showing how it works

• diver in action, with graphics connecting to dive boat photo

• living sockeye, geoducks, sea cucumber, crab with Tlingit names