Waterfowl in the economy of the Eskimos n the YukonKuskokwim

• Main Author: David R. Klein
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Arctic 1966
• Subjects: Brant; Yukon; Arctic; eskimo*; esquimaux; Kuskokwim; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.569.543; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic19-4-319.pdf

ABSTRACT. Use of waterfowl by Eskimos on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta amounts to approximately 83,000 geese and brant and 38,000 ducks annually with the greatest take occurring during the spring hunting period. About 5,500 swans and 1,000 cranes are also taken throughout flightless adult birds have dec...