The Ozette assemblage includes halibut hooks and their components.

The hooks document the specific forms used in the pre-contact period.

The materials, the proportions, the way the components were joined: these are details that cannot be recovered from stone-tool-only sites.

Understanding what a specific type of fishhook looked like, and how it was constructed, is the difference between knowing that people fished for halibut and actually understanding how they did it.

Herring were taken in enormous quantities using rakes, which were long wooden paddles or boards with sharp projecting tines.