While Bristol Bay has enjoyed a massive sockeye run in recent years, Yukon villages are facing another summer without a subsistence salmon harvest, as chum and chinook returns continue to dwindle.
One day last fall, Deenaalee Chase Hodgdon returned to Anvik, a Yukon River village of less than 100 people, home to the Deg Xitʼan Athabascan people. Anvik is quieter now than Hodgdon remembers from visits as a kid, but that day there was a commotion.
On that trip last year, Hodgdon had come home with donated fish from Bristol Bay with plans to distribute it to the community in Anvik. But for Indigenous people along the river, losing access to salmon fishing means losing a way of life. “The smokehouse is a fundamental, central part of so many of our cultures that brings people together — the smell of the smoke, the image of your bright red fish hanging,” she said. “The way that we rely on community to take shifts to make sure that the fire is tended and does not go out.”
It’s not a perfect replacement. Chase said there’s something lost in not being able to pull fish out of the water and process it yourself, but the ability to share resources across the state is valuable.
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