The salmon feast -- Targeting small fishermen -- An Inupiaq subsistence camp: 1950s-1960s -- A salmon troller's start -- Canning Alaska -- Ekuk: a cannery village -- Fishing families: Kotzebue Sound, Norton Sound, Kachemak Bay -- Northwest trolling: everyman's grounds -- More of fishing with families -- Limiting the fleets -- Good times and grim for the Northwest -- Rights to salmon: Indian treaties -- More rights to salmon: Canadian v. US fleets -- Saving salmon: sinking fleets -- River blindness: from the Yukon to the Sacramento -- The beacon bright -- And more rights to salmon: sport fishing -- Subsistence these days -- Fish feed lots -- Photos -- Our federal small-boat fleets and their lost commons -- A far north fishery: Nome King Crabbing -- The golden egg: herring roe -- Sea changes: the Magnuson Act -- The regional fisheries councils retool their fleets -- New England fishing lessons -- Models for fisheries: Iceland, New Zealand, Canada -- American Fisheries Act and the community development quota -- Launching small fisheries: Norton Sound -- From skiffs to small boats -- Privatizing halibut: the North Pacific Council's showpiece -- Small crabber outrage -- Groundfishermen's turn: Gulf of Alaska rockfish and cod -- CDQ forecast: clear, patches of fog -- Bycatch tangles -- New England's bitter stew -- The Pacific Council climbs aboard -- Fish management and its discontents -- Rough waters: fishermen and choices -- Our federal small-boats fleets photos.