Collaborative Research: Sustainabiity of critical areas for eiders and subsistence hunters in an industrializing nearshore zone

• Main Authors: James Lovvorn, Marjorie Brooks, Aariel Rocha
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2019
• Subjects: Benthic food webs; Hydrographic models; Habitat delineation; Marine spatial planning; Organic Carbon; PAROMS; Arctic; Bering Sea; Chukchi Sea; Chukchi; King Eider
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18739/A2NV99C2Q

Throughout the Arctic, indigenous people are faced with difficult choices between the cash benefits of industrialization versus potential degradation of subsistence hunting. Subsistence hunting often provides a large fraction of foods, and may be more reliable in the long term than a cash economy ba...