Book details rural salmon studies.

• Author: Pounds, Nancy
• Position: Inside Alaska Business

The Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim Sustainable Salmon Initiative has released a new book, "Pacific Salmon: Ecology and Management of Western Alaska's Populations." The book was published by the American Fisheries Society and covers the freshwater and marine ecology and management of salmon and is this first comprehensive appraisal of the region's salmon resources. The book includes color maps of the region and plates of Pacific salmon by renowned artist Joseph Tomelleri.

Salmon support subsistence and commercial fisheries important to many rural Western Alaska communities north of Bristol Bay. Salmon returns...