Fisheries, Subsistence, and Habitat
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Search Again| Division: | Division of Subsistence |
| Title: | How Subsistence Salmon Connects Households and Communities: an Exploration of Salmon Production and Exchange Networks in Three Communities on the Yukon River, 2018–2019 |
| Author: | Alida Trainor; Drew Gerkey; Brooke M. McDavid; Helen S. Cold; Jeff Park; David S. Koster |
| Year: | 2021 |
| Report ID: | ADF&G Division of Subsistence, Technical Paper No. 481 |
| Abstract: | This report summarizes the results of research about salmon production and exchange conducted in three Yukon River communities: Pilot Station, Nulato, and Beaver. Results from this study continue to demonstrate the fundamental nature of sharing and exchange networks as part of subsistence economies and the importance of salmon as a keystone resource in Yukon River communities. Additionally, results from this report further confirm prior observations made by researchers that forms of wild food exchange, including sharing, barter, and customary trade, are best understood on a continuum and that legal definitions and regulations about barter and customary trade do not adequately account for how wild food exchanges occur in practice. Because salmon holds social and cultural values beyond the nutrition it provides, declines in salmon have a far-reaching effect on community wellbeing. The effects of Yukon River salmon declines extend to other regions and other resources. |
| Keywords: | sharing; customary trade; barter; customary and traditional use; Yukon River; Pilot Station; Nulato; Beaver; salmon; Chinook salmon; salmon declines; networks; network analysis; ERGM |