K'ezghlegh, Nondalton Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Freshwater Fish
Stickman K, Balluta A, McBurney M, Young D. 2003. K'ezghlegh, Nondalton Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Freshwater Fish. Fisheries Project 01-075. US Fish and Wildlife Service, Office of Subsistence Management, Fisheries Resource Monitoring Program. Anchorage, Alaska
Excerpt from Forward: This report ummarizes information regarding the subsistence use of sockeye salmon and other freshwater fi sh gathered for a project funded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Fisheries Information Services. This project to document traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) was undertaken by the Nondalton Tribal Council in partnership with Lake Clark National Park and Preserve. During the summer of 2001, Karen Stickman and Andrew Balluta interviewed eighteen Nondalton residents regarding their current and past use of sockeye salmon and other freshwater fish for subsistence. The project participants responded to a questionnaire that asked about past and present fishing practices; geographic locations and Dena¿ina place names of traditional fi shing areas; changes in the relative abundance of sockeye salmon and other freshwater fi sh used for subsistence, and observations of change in the environment. The questionnaire was administered as a series of semidirected interviews using USGS quad maps of the Lake Clark/Newhalen River area with mylar overlays to record spatial information. Spatial information recorded on quad map overlays was incorporated into a subsistence database by Dan Young and used to generate the maps included in this report. The following report does not attempt to analyze or interpret the questionnaire responses, but presents the information in the words of the residents interviewed. Spatial information from individual interviews is consolidated on summary maps and quantitative data is described in bar graphs. The people interviewed included elders and other knowledgeable individuals familiar with local subsistence fi sheries who at the time ranged in age from 41 to 97 years old. The interviews were conducted in both Dena¿ina and English.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Stickman, Karen; Balluta, Andrew; McBurney, Mary; Young, Dan
- Date of Issue
- 2003-09
- Publisher
- US Fish and Wildlife Service, Office of Subsistence Management, Fisheries Resource Monitoring Program
- Units
- LACL
- Keywords
- Air Quality, burbot, candlefish, Dolly Varden, Ecology, environmental change, Fish Abundance, Freshwater Fish, grayling, human induced change, LACL, Lake Clark, Lake Trout, Nondalton, Northern Pike, Rainbow Trout, Salmon, salmon harvest, Subsistence, sucker, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Whitefish