Record | Species Use Database

A. Species

Scientific name: Oncorhynchus spp.

Common name(s): Salmon

Global IUCN Red List Threat Status:

B. Location of use

Geographic location(s):

Pacific - northwest

Country/Region:

C. Scale of assessment

Scale of assessment: National Level

Name/Details of location: Alaska

D. Timescale of use

Start Year: 2020

End Year: 2021

E. Information about the use

How is the wild species sourced?: Wild species sourced from its natural habitat

Type of use: Extractive

Practice of use: Targeted fishing harvesting/exploiting or collecting wild aquatic resources

Lethal or non-lethal: Lethal

Does this use involve take/extraction of: The whole entire organism

Purpose(s) of end use: Food and feed

Motivation of use: Basic subsistence, Income generation from trade (individual/household/community), Largescale commercial exploitation for trade and Traditional/Cultural/Spiritual

Is this use legal or illegal?: Legal under national law

F. Information about the Users

Which stakeholder(s) does the record primarily focus on?: Local people and International private sector

G. Information about the sustainability of use

Is there evidence that the use is having an impact on the target species?: Wild species sourced from its natural habitat

Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from an ecological perspective been recorded?: not recorded

Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from an economic perspective been recorded?: Yes, considered unsustainable

Brief summary on why the use has been assessed/judged to be sustainable or unsustainable: " the commodification and marketization of commercial fishing rights has dispossessed Indigenous communities from their human and cultural rights to fishing ways of life; as a result, many rural and Indigenous youth struggle to gain access to fishing livelihoods, leaving many fishing communities in a precarious state."

Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from a social perspective been recorded?: Yes, considered unsustainable

Brief summary on why the use has been assessed/judged to be sustainable or unsustainable: "inequities in Alaska's salmon systems are evident in the criminalization and limitation of traditional fishing ways of life and the dramatic alienation of Indigenous fishing rights."

Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from a human health perspective been recorded?: not recorded

Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from an animal health/welfare perspective been recorded?: not recorded

Recommendations provided in the record to maintain or enhance the sustainability of the use of the target species

Record source

Information about the record source: scientific_pub

Date of publication/issue/production: 2021-01-01T00:00:00+0000

Source Reference(s):

Carothers, C., Black, J., Langdon, S.J., Donkersloot, R., Ringer, D., Coleman, J., Gavenus, E.R., Justin, W., Williams, M., Christiansen, F. and Samuelson, J., 2021. Indigenous peoples and salmon stewardship: a critical relationship.

Date of record entry: 2023-05-23

Species Use Database

Salmon Oncorhynchus spp.