Yukon River Chinook Salmon Declines: Learning From Tradition

这一奖项授予育空河排水渔业协会(YRDFA)，将支持与育空河三角洲的Yup‘ik长老、社会科学家和自然资源经理一起举办一个跨学科研讨会，调查阿拉斯加州育空河奇努克鲑鱼这一数量急剧下降的文化关键物种的自然历史、环境和健康。研讨会的重点将是长老对鲑鱼和鲑鱼捕鱼的知识；讨论与这些做法有关的历史、变化、传统地名、收获模式、饮食和食物准备、传统捕鱼做法、天气、河流状况、其他动植物群落以及其他相关主题。该项目仿照卡利斯塔教育和文化部(CEC)开展的非常成功的Yupik环境知识项目(YEKP)。该项目的一部分将是转录知识研讨会的所有录音。研讨会结束后，数据将被分析并与其他数据来源进行比较，如阿拉斯加鱼类和猎物部、美国鱼类和野生动物服务局、科学研究报告和出版物等，以更全面地了解奇努克鲑鱼的自然历史、环境和健康。通过研讨会产生的信息将在YUP？IK社区、利益相关者、资源经理和科学家之间广泛共享。该项目的目标是：1)在为期两天半的以奇努克鲑鱼衰退为重点的研讨会期间，与育空河长老专家合作；2)分析和比较关于收成模式、天气条件和相关动物模式的当代社会和生物学研究结果；3)与阿拉斯加原住民和非原住民社区、资源经理和科学家分享收集到的信息。YRDFA将与CEC合作，使用他们成熟的模型和方法。长老专家将在一个舒适的环境中参加为期数天的密集Yup‘ik语言研讨会，详细讨论奇努克三文鱼衰退。他们将能够自由地谈论可能不容易翻译成英语的概念，并将包含对地点、动物和活动的重要描述。长老们将与来自CEC和YRDFA的社会科学家互动，他们将主持、指导、记录和分析研讨会互动。讨论要点将事先与阿拉斯加鱼类和猎物部门(ADFG)和美国鱼类和野生动物管理局的西方科学家一起审查，以收集他们对符合他们管理和研究兴趣的讨论主题的意见。在安克雷奇举行的会议之后，录音将被转录并翻译成英语。PI将按主题分析抄本。这些主题将与ADFG和USFWS管理人员分享，以审查需要进一步审议的领域，并结合现有渔业数据进行分析。这些信息也将与参与研究的阿拉斯加原住民社区分享。

This award to the Yukon River Drainage Fisheries Association (YRDFA) will support an interdisciplinary workshop with Yup'ik Elders from the Yukon River Delta, social scientists, and natural resource managers investigating the natural history, environment, and health of the cultural keystone species whose numbers are in precipitous decline, the Chinook salmon of the Yukon River, Alaska. The focus of the workshop will be Elder knowledge of the salmon and salmon fishing; discussing the history, changes, traditional place names, harvest patterns, diet and food preparation, traditional fishing practices, weather, river conditions, other animal and plant communities related to these practices, as well as other relevant topics. This project is modeled after the very successful Yup'ik Environmental Knowledge Project (YEKP) carried out by Calista Education and Culture (CEC). Part of the project will be to transcribe all of the recordings from the knowledge workshop. Following the workshop resulting data will be analyzed and compared with other data sources, e.g., Alaska Department of Fish and Game, US Fish and Wildlife Service, scientific research reports and publications, etc. in order to gain a more complete picture of the natural history, environment, and health of Chinook salmon. Information produced through the workshop will be shared widely among Yup?ik communities, stakeholders, resource managers, and scientists. Objectives of the project are:1) To work with Yukon River Elder experts during a two and a half day workshop focused onChinook salmon declines;2) To analyze and compare findings with contemporary social and biological studies about harvest patterns, weather conditions, and related animal patterns;3) To share the information gathered with Alaska Native and non-Native communities, resource managers and scientists.YRDFA will work in collaboration with the CEC and use their proven model and methodology.Elder experts will participate in an intensive multi-day Yup'ik language workshop in a comfortable setting, talking at length about Chinook salmon declines. They will be able to speak freely about concepts that may not be easily translatable into English and will contain significant descriptions of places, animals, and activities. The Elders will interact with social scientists from the CEC and the YRDFA who will host, guide, record, and analyze the workshop interactions. Discussion points will be reviewed in advance with western scientists at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADFG) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to gather their input on discussion topics that would meet their areas of management and research interests.Following the meeting in Anchorage, the recordings will be transcribed and translated into English. The transcriptions will be analyzed by theme by the PI. The themes will be shared with the ADFG and USFWS managers to review for areas of further consideration and analysis with existing fisheries data. This information will also be shared with the Alaska Native communities that participated in the study.