The fishermen's frontier : people and salmon in Southeast Alaska

The fishermen's frontier : people and salmon in Southeast Alaska / David F. Arnold ; foreword by William Cronon.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Arnold, David F.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2008.
Series:	Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
Subjects:	Geschichte (umfassend) Pacific salmon fisheries > Alaska, Southeast > History. Fishery management > Alaska, Southeast > History. Tlingit Indians > Fishing > Alaska, Southeast > History. Haida Indians > Fishing > Alaska, Southeast > History. Traditional ecological knowledge > Alaska, Southeast > History. NATURE > Wildlife. HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) Fishery management Pacific salmon fisheries Tlingit Indians > Fishing Traditional ecological knowledge Lachsfischerei Fischer Lachsfische. Fischerei. Southeast Alaska Pazifischer Ozean > Nordost Alaska Alaska. Tlingit (Volk) Haida (Volk) History
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Table of Contents:

First fishermen : the aboriginal salmon fishery
The industrial transformation of the Indian salmon fishery, 1780s-1910s
Federal conservation, fish traps, and the struggle to control the fishery, 1889-1959
Work, nature, race, and culture on the fishermen's frontier, 1900s-1950s
The closing of the fishermen's frontier, 1950s-2000s
Epilogue: Endangered species?