Salmon Coast to Coast

Salmon Coast to Coast
Author: Bill Hilts
Publisher:
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1991
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780914697435

This book offers the reader a close-up look at salmon and their anadromous life cycles and everything in the way of knowledge and equipment you'll need to catch these hard-fighting fish in the West Coast, Great Lakes, and East Coast fisheries.

A Stain Upon the Sea

A Stain Upon the Sea
Author: Stephen Hume
Publisher: Madeira Park, B.C. : Harbour Pub.
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2004
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

Winner of the 2005 Roderick Haig-Brown BC Book Prize! Shortlisted for the 2005 George Ryga Award for Social Awareness!

The Lost Coast

The Lost Coast
Author: Tim Bowling
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

An impassioned lament for the home Bowling once knew and for the river and creatures that continue to haunt his imagination.

A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other

A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other
Author: Charlotte Coté
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2022-01-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0295749539

In the dense rainforest of the west coast of Vancouver Island, the Somass River (c̓uumaʕas) brings sockeye salmon (miʕaat) into the Nuu-chah-nulth community of Tseshaht. C̓uumaʕas and miʕaat are central to the sacred food practices that have been a crucial part of the Indigenous community’s efforts to enact food sovereignty, decolonize their diet, and preserve their ancestral knowledge. In A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other, Charlotte Coté shares contemporary Nuu-chah-nulth practices of traditional food revitalization in the context of broader efforts to re-Indigenize contemporary diets on the Northwest Coast. Coté offers evocative stories of her Tseshaht community’s and her own work to revitalize relationships to haʔum (traditional food) as a way to nurture health and wellness. As Indigenous peoples continue to face food insecurity due to ongoing inequality, environmental degradation, and the Westernization of traditional diets, Coté foregrounds healing and cultural sustenance via everyday enactments of food sovereignty: berry picking, salmon fishing, and building a community garden on reclaimed residential school grounds. This book is for everyone concerned about the major role food plays in physical, emotional, and spiritual wellness.

Not on My Watch

Not on My Watch
Author: Alexandra Morton
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2022-09-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0735279683

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Alexandra Morton has been called "the Jane Goodall of Canada" because of her passionate thirty-year fight to save British Columbia's wild salmon. Her account of that fight is both inspiring in its own right and a roadmap of resistance. Alexandra Morton came north from California in the early 1980s, following her first love—the northern resident orca. Then, in 1989, industrial aquaculture moved into the region, chasing the whales away. Soon Alex had shifted her scientific focus to documenting the infectious diseases and parasites that pour from the ocean farm pens of Atlantic salmon into the migration routes of wild Pacific salmon, and then to proving their disastrous impact on wild salmon and the entire ecosystem of the coast. Alex stood against the farms, first representing her community, then alone, and at last as part of an uprising in which ancient Indigenous governance resisted a province and a country that wouldn't obey their own court rulings. She has used her science, many acts of protest and the legal system in her unrelenting efforts to save wild salmon and ultimately the whales—a story that reveals her own perseverance and bravery, but also shines a bright light on the ways other humans doggedly resist the truth. Here, she brilliantly calls those humans to account for the sake of us all.

Salmon

Salmon
Author: Mark Kurlansky
Publisher:
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2021-10-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9780861541256

The internationally bestselling author says if we can save the salmon, we can save the world

Organizing Asian-American Labor

Organizing Asian-American Labor
Author: Chris Friday
Publisher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2010-06-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1439903794

Asian and Asian American workers resist oppression and shape their own lives.

Something Spectacular

Something Spectacular
Author: Howard A. Tanner
Publisher: MSU Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2018-12-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1628953470

As the new chief of the Michigan Department of Conservation’s Fish Division in 1964, Howard A. Tanner was challenged to “do something . . . spectacular.” He met that challenge by leading the successful introduction of coho salmon into the Michigan waters of the Great Lakes. This volume illustrates how Tanner was able to accomplish this feat: from a detailed account of his personal and professional background that provided a foundation for success; the historical and contemporary context in which the Fish Division undertook this bold step to reorient the state’s fishery from commercial to sport; the challenges, such as resistance from existing government institutions and finding funding, that he and his colleagues faced; the risks they took by introducing a nonnative species; the surprises they experienced in the first season’s catch; to, finally, the success they achieved in establishing a world-renowned, biologically and financially beneficial sport fishery in the Great Lakes. Tanner provides an engaging history of successfully introducing Pacific salmon into the lakes from the perspective of an ultimate insider.