His friends would ask him about "the game with the fishing net" and he would explain it was like ice hockey - fast and hazardous.

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Other important fishing tools include the harpoon, the net, the lure, the spear.

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He eventually found fishing line, and a large undamaged mosquito net, and sisal bags large enough to tie together and use as a blanket.

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One provision would reduce southeast Alaska's fleet of salmon fishing boats - seine boats they're called for the type of net they used.

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Theodore Williston has been fishing these waters since the age of five, when his uncle first taught him how to set a net.

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