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ISBN-10: 029574829X
ISBN-13: 9780295748290
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publish Date: 01/31/2021
Dimensions: 8.90" L, 5.90" W, 0.70" H

Herring and People of the North Pacific: Sustaining a Keystone Species

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Overview

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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"This is an exceptionally interesting, carefully written, and well-reasoned examination of the role the Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) has played in the history and culture of the peoples of the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska."–Choice

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Details

ISBN-10: 029574829X
ISBN-13: 9780295748290
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publish Date: 01/31/2021
Dimensions: 8.90" L, 5.90" W, 0.70" H
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