Ever since ancient time the life and occupational habits of local people of Salacgriva, Kuvizi and Ainazi have been closely connected to the Baltic Sea and the ample opportunities it provides. Generations of people have lived their life making their living by trades connected to sea. Neither the time of the first independence of Latvia nor the Soviet times have made any changes to the occupational habits of the local inhabitants. The things that changed in due course were the methods of procuring the raw material and the way the production was cured and processed. Perhaps, a short insight into the creative and sometimes even ingenious appliances will take you through the course of the history of our Region.