Sign One: Trolling

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 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, trip length, freezing aboard

• regulatory, allocation issues?

• The impact of dams on king salmon

• hatcheries and how we are next to a hatchery (SSSC)

• Look for sea lions, and youth with salmon, getting stray salmon in this harbor

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)

• photo of person landing fish?

• photo of rowboat handtroller?