Salmon, People, and Place: A Biologist's Search for Salmon Recovery
Jim Lichatowich, "Salmon, People, and Place: A Biologist's Search for Salmon Recovery"
English | ISBN: 0870717243 | 2013 | 272 pages | PDF | 7 MB
English | ISBN: 0870717243 | 2013 | 272 pages | PDF | 7 MB
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 fueled the catastrophic decline in Northwest salmon populations for more than a century. These programs 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
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