The Fisheries of an Ojibwa Community in Northern Ontario

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Hopper, M., Power, G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1991
• Subjects: Animal mortality; Animal population; Costs; Fishing; Food; Fishes; Ojibwa Indians; Subsistence; Suckers; Walleye; Sturgeon; Ontario; Northern; Webequie; Winisk; Winisk River; Arctic
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64603

Subsistence fishing provides an important source of food for the remote Ojibwa community of Webequie, located along the Winisk River in northern Ontario. Field observations during the summer of 1988 were combined with a recall survey to estimate catches from October 1987 through September 1988. Of 1...