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A wooden halibut hook is a type of fish hook, historically used by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast to catch Pacific halibut. In addition to their utilitarian function, wooden halibut hooks have artistic value, and spiritual significance to the cultures that traditionally used them.
A variety of fish hooks. A fish hook or fishhook, formerly also called an angle (from Old English angol and Proto-Germanic *angulaz), is a hook used to catch fish either by piercing and embedding onto the inside of the fish mouth or, more rarely, by impaling and snagging the external fish body.
Halibut is the common name for three species of flatfish in the ... or other bait on circle hooks attached at regular intervals to a weighted line that can extend for ...
Most of the old-style halibut schooners have been replaced by more versatile craft that may also be used in commercial salmon seine, troll, gill net, and crab fisheries. Halibut gear consists of units of leaded ground line in lengths of 100 fathoms (600 ft; 183 m) referred to as “skates”. Each skate has about 100 hooks attached to it.
Wooden halibut hook; Z. Zara Spook This page was last edited on 25 March 2022, at 09:32 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Lines can also be set by means of an anchor, or left to drift. Hundreds or even thousands of baited hooks can hang from a single line. This can lead to many deaths of different marine species (see bycatch). Longliners – fishing vessels rigged for longlining – commonly target swordfish, tuna, halibut, sablefish and many other species. [2]
The hook is attached to a line, and is sometimes weighed down by a sinker so it sinks deeper in the water. This is the classic "hook, line and sinker" arrangement, used in angling since prehistoric times. The hook is usually dressed with lures or baits such as earthworm, doughball and bait fish.
Wooden halibut hook and stone sinker at the Totem Heritage Center in Ketchikan, Alaska Pacific halibut. Halibut was the second most important species among Tlingit food sources. The Tlingit ate freshly caught halibut and also dried the fish for consumption in the winter and also as a trade commodity. [7]