Sign One: Trolling

What should be included on a sign about trolling?

Ideas for text:

• Troll not same as Trawl, definition and context: Trawlers mostly bigger, drag nets in

  water or on bottom, mainly pollock, not allowed in SE Alaska

• How trolling works-hook and line, year round

• Small businesses, often one or two crew, size of the Sitka troll fleet, value, mostly local residents

• Where they fish within 20 miles, what they fish for king, chum, coho, where it gets sold, how it's processed from boat to table

• Clean water, healthy food, high quality low volume, one at a time, premium

• Managed for conservation, fishermen involved, collaborative management federal Canada and states

• History of trolling: 1900s, rowboats, only kings, salting into tierces; motors introduced to the boats teens, thousands of small boats, how Ketchikan area then Port Alexander then Sitka then Chichagof then Fairweather Grounds; handtrollers at Kalinin; dams impact; 1970s Baby Boomers, Limited Entry; how changed from inside drags to outside,

• The impact of dams on king salmon, Pacific Salmon Treaty, cooperative management US and Canada

• Fish farms banned in Alaska and why

Images ideas:

• A good photo of a troller with graphics pointing out distinguishing feature (poles) and how the gear works

• Photo of historic troll fleet

• King salmon, coho salmon, chum salmon (and Tlingit names for, info about their existence, like where they spawn, what they eat)

• Map of Northwest Coast to show gyres, how salmon move both directions along coast to emphasize connection of viewer