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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Arnold, David F.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2008]
Series:	Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
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.

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?