Salmon without rivers: a history of the Pacific salmon crisis

A rough trip through evolutionary time humans enter the Pacific Northwest the rise of the salmon-based economies the first salmon management conflicting economies birth and growth of the salmon canning industry Indian fishermen displaced controlling the harvest the fishery moves to the ocean hatcheries in the United States fish culture moves west acclimatization - playing God with ecosystems the political tool science and salmon management different roads to restoration the road to extinction building a new salmon culture.