Salmon, People, and Place: A Biologist's Search for Salmon Recovery

Lichatowich, Jim

ISBN 10: 0870717243 / ISBN 13: 9780870717246

Published by Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, OR, U.S.A., 2013

About this Item

This book is straight and tight with a few penciled remarks in a very few places. Otherwise, it appears as new. Lichatowich presents a concrete plan for salmon recovery, based on lessons learned from past mistakes and requiring a commitment to healing the relationships among salmon, people, and place. Part science, part anthropology and part philosophy this is essential reading for anyone hoping to understand salmon in the Northwest. Proceeds from the sale of this book benefit environmental restoration and education.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Salmon, People, and Place: A Biologist's Search for Salmon Recovery
• Publisher: Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, OR, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870717243
• ISBN 13: 9780870717246
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

Each year wild Pacific salmon leave their oceanic feeding grounds and swim hundreds of miles back to their home rivers. The salmon’s annual return is a place-defining event in the Pacific Northwest, with immense ecological, economic, and social significance. However, despite massive spending, efforts to significantly alter the endangered status of salmon have failed.

In Salmon, People, and Place, acclaimed fisheries biologist Jim Lichatowich eloquently exposes the misconceptions underlying salmon management and recovery programs that have fuelled the catastrophic decline in Northwest salmon populations for more than a century. These programmes will continue to fail, he suggests, so long as they regard salmon as products and ignore their essential relationship with their habitat.

But Lichatowich offers hope. In Salmon, People, and Place he presents a concrete plan for salmon recovery, one based on the myriad lessons learned from past mistakes. What is needed to successfully restore salmon, Lichatowich states, is an acute commitment to healing the relationships among salmon, people, and place.

A significant contribution to the literature on Pacific salmon, Salmon, People, and Place: A Biologist’s Search for Salmon Recovery is an essential read for anyone concerned about the fate of this Pacific Northwest icon.

About the Author

Jim Lichatowich is the author of the award-winning book, Salmon without Rivers: A History of the Pacific Salmon Crisis. He has worked on Pacific salmon issues as a researcher, manager, and scientific advisor for more than forty years. He has served many years on the Independent Scientific Advisory Board for the Columbia River salmon restoration programme, the State of Oregon’s Independent Multidisciplinary Science Team, and on other independent scientific review panels in British Columbia and California.