Subsistence sockeye salmon production, distribution, exchange and customary trade in southeast Alaska

Description:

Tlingit and Haida of southeast Alaska engage in a wide range of economic processes and transactions with subsistence sockeye salmon and the products derived from them. This report provides information on the processes of sockeye salmon product movement, focusing especially on customary trade -- money exchanges for subsistence products that do not rise to the level of commerical enterprise.

subjects: Indians of North America,  Subsistence economy,  Subsistence fishing,  Sockeye salmon,  Economic conditions,  Fishing,  Fishery management,  Fishing surveys,  Fish stock assessment,  Tlingit Indians,  Haida Indians

Places: Southeast Alaska