Navigation Sheet

The captain reads the statements that correspond to the numbers the players (mates) land on when they roll the di.

1. START
2. Restaurant - Restaurant manager is training the kitchen staff on how to keep high quality seafood. GO AHEAD 2 spaces and receive $15 to spend at your favorite seafood restaurant.
3. Dry Dock - Boat engine will not start and needs repair. Lose 2 days of fishing. GO BACK 2 spaces and pay $50 for repairs.
4. Los Angeles - At school learning about how fisher folk help feed Californians the nutritious and delicious harvest from the sea. GO AHEAD 3 spaces and receive $5 for school lunch.
5. Shoreline - Weather is cold and stormy. The ocean is rough and giant waves pound the beach. Lobsters move offshore. Can't launch fishing boat to set traps. Lose 5 days of trapping. GO BACK 4 spaces and lose $40.
6. Tide pool - Take a field trip to the ocean shore during low tide. Use a waterscope to search for the sea's treasures. GO AHEAD 2 spaces and receive $5 for materials to make a friend a waterscope.
7. Beachcombing - Walk on the beach, looking for shells washed ashore by the tide. Drop a juice can and empty lunch bag on the sand. GO BACK 6 spaces for littering the beach, pick up your litter, and pay a $20 fine.
8. Sea urchins - See a round, red spiny object known as a sea urchin and take it home as a decoration. GO BACK 7 spaces for disturbing tidepools. Pay a $15 fine.
9. Spiny lobster - Spiny lobster are prized by seafood connoisseurs in both Asia and Europe. Trap 15 lobsters and ship them to Europe alive. GO AHEAD 3 spaces and receive $75, your profit after paying for lobster bait and airfreight.
10. Mackerel - Mackerel are easier to catch at night when they are in schools. Just learned how to use sonar to locate mackerel at night. GO AHEAD 1 space and receive $30 to put toward another new electronic fish finding tool.
11. Purse seine net - Go fishing in the Santa Barbara Channel to catch fish for the cannery. Use a purse seine net, the most effective gear to catch schooling fish like sardines and mackerel. GO AHEAD 2 spaces and receive $50 for catching a ton of sardines.
12. Kelp forest - The kelp forest harbors many small fish and is an important part of the food chain. Many different species eat kelp to survive. Sea urchins live near the kelp forest to be close to their primary food. GO AHEAD 3 spaces and receive $25 to spend in a sushi bar.
13. Sardines - Left to catch sardines at 12 noon but could not find any fish. Spoke to an experienced fisherman on the radio who said it is easier to catch sardines at night because they form schools, and when they swim they look like a crescent moon glowing in the water. He explained that the glow is caused by bioluminescence. GO BACK 4 spaces for not waiting for darkness to fish for sardines. Lose $30 to pay for extra fuel for the boat.
14. Shark - Thresher sharks and mako sharks are harvested with gillnets that drift at night, attached to the boat. Find a patch of green, nutrient-rich water after a storm and catch 100 pounds of shark. GO AHEAD 4 spaces for a successful night's fishing and receive $40 from sales to the processor, who will cut up the fish for restaurants.
15. Bluefin tuna - Big bluefin tuna only swim near the shore of California once in awhile. Spotter pilots looking for sardines see a school of bluefin tuna in the Santa Barbara Channel. Set a purse seine net and catch 3 fish that weigh 300 pounds each. GO AHEAD 5 spaces and receive $60 for your lucky catch.
16. Ocean front - Ocean fronts are places where ocean currents meet, creating turbulence and sharp temperature breaks in the water. Food is usually abundant in these frontal zones, attracting both bait fish and their predators. Find an ocean front and catch swordfish on the warm, blue-water side of the temperature break. GO AHEAD 3 spaces and receive $50 for your successful trip.
17. Drift gillnet - Find an ocean front and set a drift gillnet 60-feet below the water surface to catch swordfish. Gale force winds come up overnight. The skipper ties the net to the bow of the boat for a sea anchor. When the wind dies 12 hours later, the skipper turns the boat around to pull the net and finds that all the swordfish in it have been eaten by sharks. GO BACK 3 spaces and lose $40 for the lost catch.
18. Swordfish - It is a challenge to use a harpoon to catch swordfish. It is also a skill used by Native Americans more than two centuries ago. GO AHEAD 3 spaces and receive $30 to donate to a favorite natural history museum for carrying on an American tradition.
19. Trawl gear - The catching bag, or codend, of a California halibut trawl net has 7.5 inch mesh. When harvesting prawns, the codend has a 1.5 inch mesh. Use a halibut net to catch prawns and lose your catch through the mesh. GO BACK 4 spaces and lose $50 for not catching any prawns.
20. Squid - Squid are attracted to the surface at night with bright lights. Go fishing for squid in January in southern California, turn on your deck lights and catch schooling squid with a purse seine net. GO AHEAD 3 spaces and receive $40 after expenses.
21. Set gillnet - Use an old paper fathometer (fish finder) to set a gillnet near a rocky outcropping 1,000 feet deep. Miss the spot and catch no fish. GO BACK 4 spaces and lose $25 to buy fuel for another trip.
22. Rockfish - Buy a new electronic fish finder and set a net near the rocky outcropping 1,000 feet deep. Hit the spot and this time catch 500 pounds of bocaccio. GO AHEAD 3 spaces and receive $35 from the processor to pay off the new fish finder.
23. Dover sole - Catch Dover sole in very deep water after a storm. GO AHEAD 4 spaces and receive $25 for braving the elements to catch fish for market.
24. Albacore tuna - In the warm water of El Niño, albacore tuna swim northward toward British Columbia to escape the heat. Miss the schools of tuna by fishing too far south. GO BACK 6 spaces and lose $55 to pay for more groceries for another trip.
25. Troller - Set out 6 lines on your troller to catch king salmon. Fish all day, but the fish aren't biting. GO BACK 4 spaces and lose $40 to buy fuel for another trip.
26. King salmon - Spend $100 on new color hoochies (fish lures) and catch 200 pounds of salmon at $2 a pound with them. GO AHEAD 3 spaces and receive $50, the amount left after paying for the new lures and fuel for the trip.
27. Rockfish - Use a color fish finder to locate rockfish in deep water over rocky bottom. Catch 200 pounds with hook-and-line gear, worth $1.50 a pound. GO AHEAD 3 spaces and receive $40 dollars, the profit after trip expenses.
28. Longline - One of many ways to fish with hook and line, longlines are often stored in tubs that can hold 168 hooks each. Each baited hook must be placed in exact order around the rim of the tub or the line will tangle when it is set. Drop a hook into the middle of the tub and snarl the longline. GO BACK 3 spaces and lose $20 to pay for lost fishing time while the crew untangles the line.
29. Lobster trap - Build 50 new traps for the coming lobster season to replace traps lost in last year's storms. GO BACK 4 spaces and lose $35 to pay for the wire.
30. Lobster - Spiny lobsters live in underwater caves by day and come out at night to feed. Set traps near a cave and catch 10 big lobsters in one trap. GO AHEAD 4 spaces and earn $50 profit for your catch.
31. Channel Islands - The Channel Islands harbor abundant marine life, including many forms of fish and shellfish. The weather is good and your boat is fast; you cross the channel and fish for three days with hook and line, catching 1,000 pounds of fish. GO AHEAD 4 spaces and earn $60.
32. Urchin diver - Find a new "hot spot", an area with a lot of sea urchins that nobody else has picked yet. Pick 700 pounds in one day at $1 per pound. GO AHEAD 3 spaces and receive $60 after paying for fuel, trip expenses, and boat mortgage.
33. Buoy - Set a buoy to mark your trap. A propeller from a passing boat cuts the rope and the buoy drifts away, leaving the trap unmarked. GO BACK 2 spaces and lose $30, the time it takes to grapple up the trap.
34. Crab pot - Set off from Port of San Francisco just before Thanksgiving to catch Dungeness crab. The market pays a good price for your crab. GO AHEAD 4 spaces and receive $40.
35. Dungeness crab - The string of crab pots that you set 24 hours ago to catch Dungeness crab has been sanded in due to a sudden storm. GO BACK 5 spaces and lose $50 for catching no crab.
36. Estuaries - The wetlands associated with estuaries provide food and habitat critical to 70% of our nation's fish species. Almost 40,000 acres of wetlands are destroyed each year. Develop a campaign to help save the estuaries, including the backwaters of San Francisco Bay. GO AHEAD 5 spaces and receive $50 donated from California fisher folks.
37. Golden Gate Bridge - Under this bridge is the entry to the Sacramento River Delta and rivers where king salmon go to spawn. The salmon's path to the Sacramento River must not be closed off if the salmon are to survive. GO AHEAD 3 spaces and donate (pay) $50 to the Save the River fund.
38. Round-haul boat - This round-haul boat is a 50-year old wooden model in need of repair. GO BACK 4 spaces and pay $50 for a new rudder.
39. Sardines - The sardine population has grown large in this warm-water cycle. There are millions of small sardines near Monterey but they are too small to pack in regular sized cans. GO AHEAD 4 spaces and invest (pay) $50 for new canning equipment to pack the small size sardines.
40. Mackerel - Mackerel migrate north in warm-water El Niño cycles. Large schools of mackerel are spotted off Monterey and round-haul boats catch 100 tons. GO AHEAD 3 spaces and pay $30 for an advertising campaign to sell nutritious canned mackerel to hospitals.
41. Round-haul net - This method of catching fish with a round-haul net (called a lampara net) was brought to Monterey by Sicilian fishermen in the early 1900's. GO AHEAD 4 spaces and receive $40 for donating your old net to a maritime museum.
42. Monterey Bay - Monterey is a great place to observe California's fishing industry and to see many species of fish at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. GO AHEAD 3 spaces and receive $20 for your trip to Monterey.
43. Big Sur coast - The cliffs and rocky shores of Big Sur, south of Monterey, are dangerous. You come too close to the rocks and damage your fishing boat. GO BACK 5 spaces and lose $50 to patch up the hull of your boat.
44. Upwelling - In California, upwelling occurs in spring and fall when water on the ocean surface is pushed away by strong northwest winds. Cold water from the deep ocean, loaded with nutrients, then rises to the surface in its place. Upwelling provides food for many types of sea life, including plants, bait fish and larger fish that feed on the bait. Northwest wind blows hard for a week, churning the water and building up food supplies. GO AHEAD 2 spaces and receive $10 to donate to a marine biology research program.
45. Squid - The squid season in the Monterey area exends from April through October. You cannot locate squid in Monterey Bay so you prospect down the coast and find many tons of squid near Morro Bay. GO AHEAD 5 spaces and earn $40, your profit after paying for extra fuel and trip expenses.
46. Dive boat - Your dive boat is fast and you reach the Channel Islands quickly, beating other divers to work. GO AHEAD 3 spaces and receive a $10 early bird bonus.
47. Sea urchins - Dive for sea urchins and harvest 300 pounds in one bag. GO AHEAD 4 spaces and receive $60 profit.
48. Rock crab - Three different types of rock crab are harvested in California's Golden Seas. Set your traps and catch 100 pounds of yellow rock crab, the mainstay southern California's live crab market. GO AHEAD 4 spaces and earn $40.
49. Point Conception - Point Conception is a landmark for fisher folk. This is the area where the northern and southern climates and ocean currents meet. Point Conception often is very windy. Sail around Point Conception on a calm day. GO AHEAD 2 spaces and receive $10 for saving fuel.
50. Supermarket - Supermarkets are an important place to keep supplied with fresh seafood. Supermarkets must follow safety procedures to maintain high quality fish and shellfish. GO AHEAD 4 spaces and receive $30 to buy California seafood at a supermarket.
51. California halibut - California halibut is a flatfish with eyes on one side of its head. It likes to bury itself in the sand and ambush unsuspecting fish swimming by. California halibut is one of the most popular fish caught near shore in California's Golden Seas. GO AHEAD 2 spaces and receive $10 to buy a fresh California halibut fillet.
52. Prawns - Fisher folk use trawl nets to harvest two types of prawns in southern California. Ridgeback prawns are caught in wintertime and spot prawns are caught in summer. Set a trawl net and catch ridgeback prawns out of season. GO BACK 4 spaces and pay a $40 fine to the Department of Fish and Game.
53. Trawler (boat) - Set a trawl net for California halibut and tear it on an old car engine that someone dumped in California's coastal waters. GO BACK 3 spaces and lose $30 for time lost to mend the net.
54. Sea cucumber - Sea cucumbers are a marine animal that look like the cucumber vegetable. Start fishing for cucumbers but no one will buy them because they don't know what they are. GO AHEAD 1 space and invest (pay) $60 to advertise the availability of California sea cucumbers in the Asian market, where cucumbers are a delicacy.
55. Lobster trap - Set your lobster traps near the beach. Tending your traps you find that someone has broken the trap door and stolen the lobster. GO BACK 2spaces and lose $15 for a new door and more bait.
56. California's Golden Seas Port - You return home safely from the sea. You brought back garbage cans filled with garbage that you collected on the ocean because you want the sea to be clean and healthy. You care about California's golden seas.

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