There were a lot of controversy around the Chinook salmon run when I visited Tanana Village on the Yukon River in 2010. The previous year, tribes and villages along the river had voluntarily cut back on the subsistence fishery because of prognosis of low returns. That year of 2010, contrary to earlier prognosis from state …
Category Archive: Alaska
Jan 10
Biological Diversity and Social Stability
The importance of biological diversity has received increased attention over the last decades and, as the Year of Biodiversity ended at the passing of 2010 to 2011, the UN declared this decade (2011 – 2020) the decade of biodiversity. Focus on biological diversity goes beyond merely protecting and conserving species from extinction. Rather the focus is …
Jul 22
Day 5, Tanana Villag, Alaska – Thursday July 22
The Tribal Center let me borrow a truck to drive around with. Drove down to visit the Moore’s fish camp down past the air strip. They let me come with them and empty the fish wheel. A few Chinook and chum salmon and white fish had been caught. At the camp I saw yet a …
Jul 21
Day 4, Fishing, Tanana Village, AK – Wednesday July 21
I went with James upstream the Yukon River to check the net that was set the day before. During the boat ride upstream, James explained to me how he had gained the knowledge to do the hunting and fishing to feed his family and community. To be succeed in gathering the food you do not …
Jul 20
Day 3, Tanana Village, Alaska – Tuesday July 20
Today, I flew with Warbelow’s Air Venture to Tanana Village to film fishing and talk with the people that live there. The people are part of the Athabascan group of people in Alaska. As we flew over the landscape I could see the waste tracts of wilderness folding out below me with rivers cutting through …