Salmon Without Rivers: A History Of The Pacific Salmon by James A. Lichatowich
By James A. Lichatowich
"Fundamentally, the salmon's decline has been the outcome of a imaginative and prescient in keeping with fallacious assumptions and unchallenged myths.... We assumed lets keep an eye on the organic productiveness of salmon and 'improve' upon normal strategies that we did not even attempt to comprehend. We assumed shall we have salmon with no rivers." --from the creation
From a mountain best the place an eagle includes a salmon carcass to feed its younger to the far-off oceanic waters of the California present and the Alaskan Gyre, salmon have penetrated the Northwest to an quantity unrivaled via the other animal. because the flip of the 20 th century, the traditional productiveness of salmon in Oregon, Washington, California, and Idaho has declined by means of 80 percentage. The decline of Pacific salmon to the edge of extinction is a transparent signal of great difficulties within the region.
In Salmon with out Rivers, fisheries biologist Jim Lichatowich bargains an eye-opening examine the roots and evolution of the salmon challenge within the Pacific Northwest. He describes the multitude of things during the last century and a part that experience ended in the salmon's decline, and examines intensive the abject failure of recovery efforts that experience targeted virtually solely on hatcheries to come salmon shares to fit degrees with no addressing the underlying reasons of the decline. The book:
- describes the evolutionary historical past of the salmon in addition to the geologic background of the Pacific Northwest during the last forty million years
- considers the indigenous cultures of the zone, and the emergence of salmon-based economies that survived for millions of years
- examines the speedy transformation of the quarter following the arriving of Europeans
- offers the historical past of efforts to guard and fix the salmon
- bargains a serious evaluate of why recovery efforts have failed
Throughout, Lichatowich argues that the dominant worldview of our society -- a worldview that denies connections among people and the wildlife -- has created the clash and controversy that symbolize the hot historical past of salmon; except that worldview is challenged and altered, there's little desire for restoration. Salmon with out Rivers exposes the myths that experience guided contemporary human-salmon interactions. It truly explains the tough offerings dealing with the electorate of the area, and gives targeted perception into some of the most tragic chapters in our nation's environmental history.
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