Posted by Katherine Rose | Apr 7, 2021
Lucas Schmidt holds a buoy (often an empty milk jug or water bottle) as Tom Gamble demonstrates how to set a branch along the shoreline, the traditional method of gathering herring eggs. (Photo provided by Jeren Schmidt)
The beginning of the herring spawn in Sitka Sound signals the wind-down of commercial fishing, and the start of the subsistence harvest: The millenia-old tradition of submerging hemlock branches along the shoreline, and waiting for herring to coat them in a thick layer of eggs. KCAW recently spoke with one subsistence advocate who’s determined to see this tradition continue by working to protect herring stocks, and by teaching kids how to harvest eggs.
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