num_pages: 272
description: Each year wild Pacific salmon leave their oceanic feeding grounds and swim hundreds of miles back to their home rivers. The salmons annual return is a place-defining event in the Pacific Northwest with immense ecological economic and social significance. However despite massive spending efforts to significantly alter the endangered status of salmon have failed. In Salmon People and Place acclaimed fisheries biologist Jim Lichatowich eloquently exposes the misconceptions underlying salmon management and recovery programs that have fueled the catastrophic decline in Northwest salmon populations for more than a century. These programs will continue to fail he suggests so long as they regard salmon as products and ignore their essential relationship with their habitat.But Lichatowich offers hope. In Salmon People and Place he presents a concrete plan for salmon recovery one based on the myriad lessons learned from past mistakes. What is needed to successfully restore salmon Lichatowich states is an acute commitment to healing the relationships among salmon people and place.A significant contribution to the literature on Pacific salmon Salmon People and Place: A Biologists Search for Salmon Recovery is an essential read for anyone concerned about the fate of this Pacific Northwest icon.
language: English
title: Salmon, People, and Place: A Biologist's Search for Salmon Recovery
publisher: Oregon State University Press