The fishermen's frontier
Subtitle: people and salmon in Southeast Alaska
By: David F. Arnold ; foreword by William Cronon.
Series: Weyerhaeuser environmental books; Weyerhaeuser environmental book
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780295987880
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-258) and index.
Table of contents: title: First fishermen : the aboriginal salmon fishery; title: The industrial transformation of the Indian salmon fishery, 1780s-1910s; title: Federal conservation, fish traps, and the struggle to control the fishery, 1889-1959; title: Work, nature, race, and culture on the fishermen's frontier, 1900s-1950s; title: The closing of the fishermen's frontier, 1950s-2000s; title: Epilogue: Endangered species?