Making salmon : an environmental history of the northwest fisheries crisis
"Pacific Salmon have mattered for millennia, but the bond between humans and societies chaae renticed industrial and sports fisheries, but now their and fish has changed radically over time. Huge runs once sustained aboriginal socities and later enriched industrial and sports fisheries, but now their scarcity threatens lives and economies. Salmon are still revered and coveted by some, but others fear and dismiss them. For many people salmon hold little cultural or economic relevance except as their interests confict with water and land use policies. Pacific northwesterners have seen sport and commercial fishing seasons dwindle from nine months to zero days; Indians have to purchase Alaska salmon because local runs are protected by the Endangered Species Act; industrialists pay higher electricity bills; irrigators water fewer acres; loggers cut fewer trees; ranchers graze farther from streams; and urbanites ration water. Since 1981, when Congress made the Bonneville Power Administration give salmon equal consideration when managing Columbia River dams, the region has invested three billion dollars to save these fish, and the only thing everyone can agree upon is that the effort has largely failed...The forcing driving decline were far more complicated tahn previous tellings have conveyed. We need such rendition of the past to demonstrate why simple stories have faile dus and why a multidimensional perspective is essential for resolving the salmon crisis. Both the problem and potential solutions are, and have always been, our collective responsibility."--from the introduction
Print Book, English, 2001
Univ Of Washington Press, Seattle, 2001