Thomas F. Thornton, Madonna L. Moss

Herring and People of the North Pacific (eBook, ePUB)

Sustaining a Keystone Species

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A unique look at Indigenous knowledge, fisheries management, and marine ecology

Herring are vital to the productivity and health of marine systems, and socio-ecologically Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) is one of the most important fish species in the Northern Hemisphere. Human dependence on herring has evolved for millennia through interactions with key spawning areasbut humans have also significantly impacted the species' distribution and abundance.

Combining ethnological, historical, archaeological, and political perspectives with comparative reference to other North Pacific cultures, Herring and People of the North Pacific traces fishery development in Southeast Alaska from precontact Indigenous relationships with herring to postcontact focus on herring products. Revealing new findings about current herring stocks as well as the fish's significance to the conservation of intraspecies biodiversity, the book explores the role of traditional local knowledge, in combination with archeological, historical, and biological data, in both understanding marine ecology and restoring herring to their former abundance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780295748306
• Artikelnr.: 60817268

Autorenporträt

Thomas F. Thornton and Madonna L. Moss