The community hopes the project will preserve an important food source and keep traditional knowledge alive.
Subsistence
Alaska harvesters and scientists are concerned about the health of black seaweed
Harvesters are having to travel farther and farther to find the seaweed, which is an important traditional food source.
Men are hunters, women are gatherers. That was the assumption. A new study upends it.
The implications are potentially enormous, says history professor Kimberly Hamlin: “The myth that man is the hunter and woman is the gatherer … naturalizes the inferiority of women.”
Dunleavy again vetoes research project on salmon bycatch
Dunleavy vetoed the project last year, too.
Transboundary Indigenous group declares salmon emergency
The group says Pacific salmon are facing habitat loss and degradation of critical waterways on both sides of the border.
Hooper Bay residents weigh in on fishing closures: ‘It’s like taking away food from our table’
Tribal Administrator Jan Olson said that there’s still confusion as to why they are being regulated — and the community needs to fish to survive.