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The Praxis of Fisheries as Culture: Successful Fishing Communities in Rural Alaska

The Praxis of Fisheries as Culture: Successful Fishing Communities in Rural Alaska. Davin Holen PhD Student University of Alaska Fairbanks Subsistence Program Manager, Southern Region Division of Subsistence Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Project.

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The Praxis of Fisheries as Culture: Successful Fishing Communities in Rural Alaska

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  1. The Praxis of Fisheries as Culture: Successful Fishing Communities in Rural Alaska • Davin Holen • PhD StudentUniversity of Alaska Fairbanks • Subsistence Program Manager, Southern Region • Division of Subsistence • Alaska Department of Fish and Game

  2. Project • This in-progress project uses three rural coastal communities located in sub-Arctic Alaska to examine successful fishing communities. • This involves the intersection of commercial and subsistence fisheries in complex social-ecological systems.

  3. Index Communities

  4. Index Communities

  5. Index Communities

  6. Research Objectives and Methods 1. Understand the place of food security in the decisions families make about continuing to live in these communities. Method: Key respondent interviews. • Identify socio-cultural factors such as culture change, kinship based social networks, and local-level politics that shape contemporary employment, migration, and subsistence patterns. Method: Household surveys. • Identify indices that could be used to measure the long-term viability of diverse fishing communities across the north. Method: Synthesis of both data sets.

  7. Why is fishing so important to the local economy?

  8. Study Years: Kokhanok 2005 Tyonek 2006 Chenega Bay 2003

  9. Gas Prices in Iliamna, 2007 Photograph by Ted Krieg

  10. Ethnographic and Harvest Assessment Research: Tyonek 2004–2006 Commercial fishing at Old Tyonek, 2005 Photograph by Davin Holen

  11. Research and Regulations: TyonekSubsistence Fishery 1983 and 2004 Photograph by Ron Stanek, 1983 Photograph by Davin Holen, 2004

  12. Research: Tyonek 2004–2006 Photograph by Davin Holen, 2004

  13. Research: Tyonek 2004–2006 Photograph by Davin Holen, 2004

  14. Why are jobs important? Tyonek Subsistence Fishery, 2005 Photography by DavinHolen

  15. Technical Papers www.adfg.alaska.gov • James A. Fall, Davin L. Holen, Brian Davis, Theodore Krieg, and David Koster. 2006. Subsistence harvests and uses of wild resources in Iliamna, Newhalen, Nondalton, Pedro Bay, and Port Alsworth, Alaska, 2004. ADF&G Division of Subsistence, Technical Paper No. 302. • Theodore M. Krieg, DavinHolen, and David Koster. 2009. Subsistence harvests and uses of wild resources in Igiugig, Kokhanok, Koliganek, Levelock, and New Stuyahok, Alaska, 2005. ADF&G Division of Subsistence, Technical Paper No. 322. • Davin Holen and Terri Lemons. 2010. Subsistence harvests and uses of wild resources in Lime Village, Alaska, 2007. ADF&G Division of Subsistence, Technical Paper No. 355. • Davin Holen, Ted Krieg, JoryStariwat, and Terri Lemons. 2011. Subsistence harvests and uses of wild resources in King Salmon, Naknek, and South Naknek, Alaska, 2007. ADF&G Division of Subsistence, Technical Paper No. 360. • Davin Holen, Ted Krieg, and Terri Lemons. 2012. Subsistence harvests and uses of wild resources in Aleknagik, Clark’s Point, and Manokotak, Alaska, 2008. ADF&G Division of Subsistence, Technical Paper No. 368. • James A. Fall, DavinHolen, Theodore M. Krieg, Robbin La Vine, Karen Stickman, Michelle Ravenmoon, Jessica Hay, and JoryStariwat. 2010. The Kvichak watershed subsistence salmon fishery: an ethnographic study. ADF&G Division of Subsistence, Technical Paper No. 352. • Stanek, Ronald T., James A. Fall, and Davin L. Holen 2006West Cook Inlet ethnographic overview and assessment for Lake Clark National Park & Preserve. Anchorage, Alaska: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service. • Stanek, Ronald T.,Davin Holen, and Crystal Wassillie 2007Harvest and uses of wild resources in Tyonek and Beluga, Alaska, 2005-2006. Technical paper no. 321Juneau: Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game, Division of Subsistence.

  16. Other Publications • Holen, Davin 2009 The dynamic context of cultural and social sustainability of communities in Southwest Alaska. Journal of Enterprising Communities 3(3):306-316. • Holen, Davin 2009 A resilient subsistence salmon fishery in Southwest Alaska. Journal of Northern Studies 2:99-113. • Holen, Davin. 2011. “We all drink this water:” The contemporary context of salmon fishing in Southwest Alaska. In Humanizing security in the Arctic. D. Michelle, F. Levesque, and J. Ferguson, eds. Pp. 191-208. Edmonton: Canadian Circumpolar Institute.

  17. Tyonek Fish Camp, 2005 dlholen@alaska.edu davin.holen@alaska.gov Supporting Organizations Photograph by DavinHolen

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