Sign Three: Longlining

What should be on a sign about longlining in Sitka?

Ideas for text:

• How it is done, target species, features of a longline boat

• History: 1860s, shore stations, salt; halibut schooner fleet enabled by refrigeration and trains; used to be dories, then catching from mother boat; overfishing, IPHC, Magnuson-Stevens, Japanese fishery, longline boom; IFQs; now

• Small businesses, typical crew size, size and value of catch, how many local boats, where sold, how processed

• challenges, how managed

• Clean, managed, healthy food

Ideas for images:

• Longliner showing how it works

• halibut, black cod, with Tlingit names, how they live, what they eat and do

• Classic halibut schooner (Republic?) and/or Tom & Al