by Douglas Granum | May 3, 2022 | GigHarbor
The region’s tribes, including the Puyallup, Nisqually, Suquamish and Squaxin, have long inhabited the small Puget Sound bay known today as Gig Harbor. Bands from the northern and southern parts of Puget Sound often camped on its shores as they roamed the sound...
by Douglas Granum | May 3, 2022 | GigHarbor
A purse seine is a large wall of netting deployed around an entire area or school of fish. The seine has floats along the top line with a lead line threaded through rings along the bottom. Once a school of fish is located, a skiff encircles the school with the net....
by Douglas Granum | May 3, 2022 | GigHarbor
Fishermen utilized many methods to ensnare salmon, including fishwheels, horse seining, gillnets, and traps. In the early years, these practices were mostly unregulated and left to the determination of the fishermen themselves. Chinese laborers and foreign workers...
by Douglas Granum | May 3, 2022 | GigHarbor
Avalon, constructed at Skansie Ship Building Company in 1929, is one of the most recognizable boats designed and built in the South Sound. In 2015, after many decades of commercial fishing, Avalon sank in Hood Canal. Declared a derelict vessel, she was...
by Douglas Granum | May 3, 2022 | GigHarbor
Gig Harbor is a city in Pierce County located on a picturesque Puget Sound bay — also called Gig Harbor — across Tacoma Narrows from Tacoma. For centuries, the Twa-Wal-Kut band of the Puyallup Tribe had a longhouse and permanent camp at the head of the...
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