01663cam a2200289 4500 283104912 TxAuBib 20020514120000.0 020514s1996||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 96070832 9781888125108 $15.00 1888125101 $15.00 Ak Ak TxAuBib Nicholson, William H. Sunken Gillnets : Fishing in Bristol Bay, Alaska / William H. Nicholson. Fishing in Bristol Bay, Alaska. 1st ed. Anchorage, Alaska : Publication Consultants, 1996. 172 p : ill., map ; softcover ; 23 cm. Includes index. Beginnings -- Limited entry -- Bristol Bay's economy -- Rough boat ride -- Metervick -- Storm -- Filling up the tender -- Tides of change -- Basement meeting -- Preparation -- Great dumpage -- Politics -- Contracting foreigners and the petition to the Board of Fish -- Lawsuit -- Joint venture -- Japan. During the winter of 1978, dynamic change loomed on the horizon. Ultimately, this would change our lives for the better, since my friends and I began to think of fishing another species of fish, other than salmon. Over the last few months, we heard rumblings of a potentially lucrative new herring fishery not too far from Dillingham. It sounded like a fishery that targeted on a species not too much larger than a smelt!. 20020514. Nicholson, William H. Fishing Alaska Bristol Bay Region. Bristol Bay Region (Alaska.)