Herring and People of the North Pacific
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Herring and People of the North Pacific

Sustaining a Keystone Species

  1. 276 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 23 Dec |Learn more

Herring and People of the North Pacific

Sustaining a Keystone Species

About this book

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 areas—but 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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Table of contents

  1. Herring and People Of The North Pacific
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. List of Abbreviations
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. Herring as a Foundation, Keystone, and Bellwether Species
  10. 2. The Life Cycle and Ecology of Pacific Herring
  11. 3. Herring in the Archaeological Record
  12. 4. Herring Cultivation among the Tlingit and Haida
  13. 5. Reframing Sustainability in Marine Ecosystems in Southeast Alaska
  14. 6. Requiem or Revitalization for Herring?
  15. Appendix A. List of Consultants
  16. Appendix B. Timeline of Commercial Herring Fisheries in Southeast Alaska
  17. Notes
  18. References
  19. Index