Yukon River Chinook Salmon Declines: Learning From Tradition

育空河奇努克鲑鱼数量减少：向传统学习

• 批准号: 1536104
• 负责人: Catherine Moncrieff
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Yukon River Drainage Fisheries Association
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-08-01 至 2018-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1536104&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Yukon; River; Chinook; Salmon; Declines

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.

授予育空地区河流流域渔业协会的这一奖项将支持与来自育空地区河流三角洲的Yup 'ik长老、社会科学家和自然资源管理人员一起举办一个跨学科讲习班，调查自然历史、环境和阿拉斯加育空地区河流的奇努克鲑鱼的健康状况，该物种的数量正在急剧下降。研讨会的重点将是鲑鱼和鲑鱼捕捞的古老知识;讨论历史，变化，传统地名，收获模式，饮食和食物准备，传统捕鱼方法，天气，河流条件，与这些做法有关的其他动物和植物群落，以及其他相关主题。 这个项目是仿照Calista教育和文化组织非常成功的Yup 'ik环境知识项目（YEKP）实施的。 该项目的一部分将是转录所有的录音从知识研讨会。研讨会结束后，将对产生的数据进行分析，并与其他数据来源进行比较，例如，阿拉斯加渔猎部、美国鱼类和野生动物管理局、科学研究报告和出版物等，以便更全面地了解奇努克鲑鱼的自然历史、环境和健康状况。 通过研讨会产生的信息将广泛分享Yup？知识产权社区、利益攸关方、资源管理者和科学家。 该项目的目标是：（1）在为期两天半的研讨会上与育空地区河长老专家合作，重点是奇努克鲑鱼的减少;（2）分析和比较有关收获模式、天气条件和相关动物模式的当代社会和生物研究结果; 3）与阿拉斯加原住民和非原住民社区分享收集的信息，资源管理人员和科学家。YRDFA将与CEC合作，并使用他们经过验证的模型和方法。老年专家将参加一个密集的多-一天的Yup 'ik语言研讨会在舒适的环境中，详细讨论了奇努克鲑鱼的下降。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。长者将与来自CEC和YRDFA的社会科学家互动，他们将主持，指导，记录和分析研讨会的互动。讨论要点将事先与阿拉斯加渔猎部（ADFG）和美国鱼类和野生动物管理局的西方科学家进行审查，以收集他们对符合其管理和研究兴趣领域的讨论主题的意见。安克雷奇会议结束后，录音将被转录并翻译成英语。主要研究者将按主题分析该报告。这些主题将与ADFG和USFWS管理人员分享，以审查进一步考虑和分析现有渔业数据的领域。这些信息也将与参与研究的阿拉斯加原住民社区分享。