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Cultural Politics and Mining Development in Alaska's Bristol Bay Fishery
The Bristol Bay fishery in Southwest Alaska boasts the world’s largest remaining commercial harvest of sockeye salmon (Oncorhyncus nerka). In the previous decade, the transnational mining industry has intensified its efforts to develop open-pit mining operations near the headwaters of the region’s …
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Cultural Politics and Mining Development in Alaska's Bristol Bay Fishery
The Bristol Bay fishery in Southwest Alaska boasts the world’s largest remaining commercial harvest of sockeye salmon (Oncorhyncus nerka). In the previous decade, the transnational mining industry has intensified its efforts to develop open-pit mining operations near the headwaters of the region’s …
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Resource Debate in Southwest Alaska: The Bristol Bay Fishery and the Pebble Mine
<p>Bristol Bay, in Southwest Alaska, is the largest sockeye salmon fishery in the world. After an almost total collapse of salmon numbers in the mid 1970’s, the salmon have returned and average in the tens of millions every year. The salmon play a vital economic, cultural, and subsistence role in …
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Resource Debate in Southwest Alaska: The Bristol Bay Fishery and the Pebble Mine
<p>Bristol Bay, in Southwest Alaska, is the largest sockeye salmon fishery in the world. After an almost total collapse of salmon numbers in the mid 1970’s, the salmon have returned and average in the tens of millions every year. The salmon play a vital economic, cultural, and subsistence role in …
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The making of an American ichthyological empire: how the structure of perpetual exploitation of Bristol Bay salmon developed in southwest Alaska, 1883-1970s
… historical development of salmon fisheries in Bristol Bay off southwest Alaska from the pre-contact era to the 1970s. More specifically, it examines how Anglo- Americans constructed and maintained vibrant salmon fisheries in Bristol Bay during the period. This project focuses on institutions …
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A Road out of Naknek Part One: The Tide Turns
… an annual summertime return to Naknek, a town on Bristol Bay where the salmon have made their own annual summertime return for thousands of years. My thesis is a series of nonfiction essays about my background there, both as a commercial fisherman and my upbringing. It is something I consider the …
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Crustal structure of rifted and convergent margins : the U.S. East Coast and Aleutian margins
… across the mid-Atlantic margin near Chesapeak bay. Results by other workers, based on data from these transects, have shown that voluminous volcanism accompanied formation of the rifted margin during continental breakup. Results presented in this thesis constrain the landward extent of …
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A review of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in Alaska native and non-natives in southwest Alaska
… 25(OH)D levels obtained by a provider from the Bristol Bay Area Health Corporation (April 1, 2008-March 30, 2011). <br /><br /><em>Results:</em> Mean 25(OH)D was 30.9 +/- 4.4 ng/ml. 49% (24/49) of measures were ≤ 30ng/mL(insufficiency) and 20% (10/49) were ≤ 20ng/mL (deficiency), indicating …
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Drivers and Fitness Consequences of Dispersal and Structure in Wild Sockeye Salmon Populations (Oncorhynchus nerka)
… nerka): A and C Creeks on the Wood River System, Bristol Bay, AK was studied over two complete generations of returning adults. First, a panel of 172 SNP loci was developed (genotyping-in-thousands by sequencing; Chapter One) and used to reconstruct a pedigree from fish returning over a 14-year …