On understanding the history and some current problems of traditional fishery for indigenous northern nations in Khabarovsk Region

• Published in: Izvestiya TINRO
• Main Author: Sergey F. Zolotukhin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: Transactions of the Pacific Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography 2014
• Subjects: амурские малочисленные народы севера; нанайцы; эвенки; ульчи; нивхи; палеоазиаты - оседлые народы; кочевые народы; древнее рыболовство; управление рыбными ресурсами; правила рыболовства; Aquaculture. Fisheries. Angling; SH1-691; Evenks; Nivkh; Эвенки
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.26428/1606-9919-2014-179-220-225; https://doaj.org/article/3962c309ce784df796e1c1bf32ad0896

All indigenous nations of the Amur River basin, except the Nivkh, are originated from Tungus nomadic reindeer herders, known now as the Evenks. Their coming to the Amur coincided in time with arrival of Russian pioneers. These peoples began to live sedentary only from the beginning of the 20th century. Fish was not the main food for them, they hunted on marine mammals accidentally and were almost not familiar with the seafood, their trade was a simple exchange of goods. At present time the aboriginal people of the Amur River have a right to catch fish without any permits, quotas, or leasing of fishing area, that does not concern to policy of fish resources managing. For optimization of the legislation, two remarks to the Russian Federation Law «On Fisheries…» would be enough: the term «subsistence fishing» should be introduced and the concept of «traditional way of life» should be defined more precisely.