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Salmon: A Scientific Memoir investigates a narrative that is important to the identity of the Pacific Northwest Coast – the salmon as an iconic species. By following ecologists, archaeologists and fisheries biologists studying salmon, humans and their shared habitat, the reader learns about the fish through the eyes of scientists in the field. Each chapter focuses on a portion of the salmon's journey to and from their natal streams; on one of the five Pacific salmon species most commercially important to North Americans; and on the different ways scientists study the fish.

For thousands of years, fisheries were crucial to the sustenance of the First Peoples of the Pacific Coast. Yet human impact has left us with a woefully incomplete understanding of their histories prior to the industrial era. Covering Alaska, British Columbia, and Puget Sound, The Archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries illustrates how the archaeological record reveals new information about ancient ways of life and the histories of key species. Individual chapters cover salmon, as well as a number of lesser-known species abundant in archaeological sites, including pacific cod, herring, rockfish, eulachon, and hake. In turn, this ecological history informs suggestions for sustainable fishing in today's rapidly changing environment.

This book chronicles the harrowing yet awe-inspiring life cycle of salmon. The author's research shows that all over the world these fish, uniquely connected to both marine and terrestrial ecology as well as fresh and salt water, are a natural barometer for the health of the planet. He documents that for centuries man's greatest assaults on nature, from overfishing to dams, from hatcheries to fish farms, from industrial pollution to the ravages of climate change, are evidenced in the sensitive life cycle of salmon.

In A Drum in One Hand Charlotte Coté shares contemporary Nuu-chah-nulth practices of traditional food revitalization in the context of broader efforts to re-Indigenize contemporary diets on the Northwest Coast. Coté offers evocative stories of her Tseshaht community's and her own work to revitalize relationships to haʔum (traditional food) as a way to nurture health and wellness. This book is for everyone concerned about the major role food plays in physical, emotional, and spiritual wellness.

Pacific salmon fisheries, owned and managed by Indigenous peoples, were transformed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by commercial and sport fisheries backed by the Canadian state and its law. Through case studies of the conflicts over fish weirs on the Cowichan and Babine rivers, Douglas Harris describes the evolving legal apparatus that dispossessed Indigenous peoples of their fisheries. Drawing on government records, statute books, case reports, newspapers, missionary papers and a secondary anthropological literature to explore the roots of the continuing conflict over the salmon fishery, Harris has produced a superb, and timely, legal and historical study of law as contested terrain in the legal capture of Indigenous salmon fisheries in British Columbia.

Salmon gillnetting in the turbulent waters of the Fraser River at the turn of the last century was dangerous, back-breaking work. When the powerful Fraser River Canners' Association fixed the maximum price per salmon at 15 cents, fishermen united in their determination to win a decent living. Their strike shut down British Columbia's second-largest export industry and effectively resulted in the imposition of martial law as the canners, frustrated by political deadlock in Victoria, called out the militia without government assent to achieve their ends. The strike has long been understood as a watershed moment in the province's industrial history.

Each year wild Pacific salmon leave their oceanic feeding grounds and swim hundreds of miles back to their home rivers. The salmon's annual return is a place-defining event in the Pacific Northwest, with immense ecological, economic, and social significance. However, despite massive spending, efforts to significantly alter the endangered status of salmon have failed. In this book, acclaimed fisheries biologist Jim Lichatowich eloquently exposes the misconceptions underlying salmon management and recovery programs that have fueled the catastrophic decline in Northwest salmon populations for more than a century.

This book provides a good mix of both basic and applied topics in the hope that it will be useful and of interest to scientists working on finfish. Salmon: Biology, Ecological Impacts and Economic Importance covers important topics about salmon, such as their economic and social importance, their impacts on the environment, physiological and behavioral differences between wild and farmed salmon, food utilization, and water flow requirements of wild and hatchery salmon.

The International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission was formed in 1937 when the governments of Canada and the United States ratified a Convention for the protection, preservation and extension of the sockeye salmon fishery of the Fraser River. Twenty years later, a protocol governing pink salmon was added. The IPSFC was dissolved on December 31, 1985 following the signing of the Pacific Salmon Treaty.

The annual migration of salmon is one of North America's greatest wildlife wonders, a sight that ranks as a must-see for the growing number of people starved for the sight of natural marvels in an increasingly high-tech world. But what was once a plentiful resource is now becoming an endangered species. In Salmon Country, Robert H. Busch, a dedicated naturalist, has produced an intriguing account of the natural history of the Pacific salmon and the state of today's fisheries industry. He examines the salmon's tragic decline due to factors such as overfishing, habitat loss, climate change, fisheries mismanagement, and a dozen other interconnected factors all of which relate to its present sad state.

Pacific salmon inhabit a vast ecosystem that encompasses the rivers within and the ocean between coastal countries. Atlas of Pacific Salmon is the first book to apply a common, newly calibrated yardstick to measure, across this broad ecosystem, the state of Pacific salmon, which have suffered precipitous declines in abundance and diversity in recent decades. The only map-based assessment of distribution and risk of extinction for seven species of Pacific salmon at one consistent scale, under one authorship, the Atlas is the result of five years' work by Xanthippe Augerot and other foremost experts in the field.

Sockeye salmon have been returning to the Adams River in South Central British Columbia for thousands of years. They are an ecological and cultural keystone species and a significant contributor to the economy. However, salmon populations are in decline throughout the Pacific Northwest, putting communities, economies and ecosystems at risk. The Salute to the Sockeye is a nature-based tourism experience celebrating the return of wild salmon to the Adams River. This research examines how nature-based tourism can contribute to the sustainability of a species and be a driver for change.

Responsible tourism is defined as tourism that minimizes negative social, economic and environmental impacts. This form of tourism was conceptualized in Cape Town in 2002 and resulted in the creation of the Cape Town Declaration on Responsible Tourism, which focuses on the creation of optimal places for people to live and for tourists to visit. Using the Cape Town Declaration on Responsible Tourism as a guideline, and the Transtheoretical Model, more commonly known as the Changes of Behaviour Model, as a framework, this research seeks to use an exploratory case study approach using mixed methods to evaluate the motivations of natural event attendees at the Salute to the Sockeye festival held at Ts’utswecw Provincial Park in Squilax, British Columbia, Canada.

Sockeye salmon are deemed essential to life by Secwepemc Indigenous communities living near the Adams River in South Central British Columbia. They are also an ecological keystone species and a significant contributor to the BC economy. However, salmon populations are in decline throughout the Pacific Northwest, putting communities, economies and ecosystems at risk. Using Actor-Network Theory as a lens, we identify the network of actors connected to the Adams River salmon run, examine actor relationships, and consider the impacts these relations have on sustainable conservation practices. We use a community-based participatory research methodology and interviews to investigate the complexity of stakeholder relationships to wild Pacific salmon in BC.

Salmon populations are in decline throughout the Pacific Northwest, putting rural communities, economies, and entire ecosystems at risk. The Salute to the Sockeye is a nature-based tourism festival celebrating the return of wild salmon to the Adams River. In this paper, we used Actor Network Theory as a lens to identify actors associated with the Salute and examine the relationships among them. Guided by a community-based participatory research methodology, we conducted 31 semi structured interviews with stakeholders involved in the Salute to assess how the tourism festival can impact sustainability at the Adams River.

As aquatic invasive species spread, their impacts on native systems are variable and important to understand from a management perspective. Since their illegal introduction in 2017, smallmouth bass have proliferated in Cultus Lake, British Columbia and potential impacts on two species-at-risk (sockeye salmon and pygmy sculpin) are currently unknown. DNA sequencing and morphological analysis of stomach contents can provide insight into the diet of invasive opportunistic feeders, such as smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu). Diet composition, factors influencing the predation of species-at-risk, and dietary shifts were analyzed. DNA analysis identified 32 more taxa at the family level than morphological analysis.