Native Subsistence Fisheries: A Synthesis of Harvest Studies in Canada

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Berkes, Fikret
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1990
• Subjects: subsistence; fisheries; native people; native harvest surveys; resource management policy; co-management; Arctic; Subarctic; subsistance; pêche; aborigènes; relevés des prises effectuées par les aborigènes; politique de gestion des ressources; cogestion; arctique; British Columbia; Canada; Northwest Territories; Arctique*
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64642

Subsistence fisheries, as distinct from commercial and recreational, exist throughout much of the Canadian North and satisfy local needs for fish protein. These fisheries have been investigated quantitatively only since the 1970s. Many of these studies are in the "grey literature"; methods...