On the Lower Yukon, the salmon crash is forcing people who rely on the fish to spend far more money on less healthy, store-bought foods. It also makes it harder for parents to pass on their Yup’ik culture to their kids.
At the AC store in Emmonak, near the mouth of the Yukon River, Maggie Westlock was picking up a few things for dinner. In her cart she had grapes, coleslaw, sandwiches and some canned ham.During a normal summer, Westlock would be filling her family’s dinner plates and chest freezers with lots of wild chum and chinook salmon they catch themselves. But fishing for those two species on the Yukon has been closed for two summers because of a sudden and severe collapse.
“My son when he went drifting one time he caught 700 chums and it took us three days. Seven totes!” Beans said.Beans uses every part of the fish from the head to the tail. She makes culunaq and egamaarrluk. But Howard says they’re not exactly sure what’s impacting wild chinook, and that species has been on the decline in many Alaska rivers for a decade now.
The state says it wants to keep studying the fish before it takes action against commercial fisheries, but most subsistence users say they don’t have time for years-long scientific studies. Many want the state and the feds to more strictly manage the commercial fisheries now.argue that the numbers are now so low that getting each and every spawner back to the Yukon River matters. Dr. Howard says she is getting concerned, and this issue will only get more urgent as time goes on.
11-year-old Nicole Long practices cutting fish for the first time in two years with her mother, Jolene Long.
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