When Dennis Damon was a teenager, he would head out in his little boat, eastward of Baker Island, to go handlining for codfish.
“One hook, one line, one person, one fish. That’s your effort, and you can do it as many times as you feel capable of doing it. And hopefully a fish will take that hook,” Damon said during a recent discussion of the evolution of fishing practices.
Today, he said, commercial fishing …
