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Introductions: cultivating capture fisheries: lessons from salmon culturing and cultures / Courtlans L. Smith -- The oil company, the fish, and the Nivkhi: the cultural value of Sakhalin salmon / Emma Wilson -- Shades of deep salmon: fish, fishing, and Itelmen cultural history / David Koester -- Koryak salmon fishery: remembrances of the past, perspectives for the future / Erich Kasten -- Indigenous peoples' traditional fishing in Kamchatka and local community development concept based on sustainable use of fish resources: problems and solutions / Victoria N. Sharakmatova -- Deprivations amid abundance: the role of salmon and "other natural resources" in sustaining indigenous Aleut communities / Katherine Reedy-Maschner -- Enduring ties: salmon and the Alutiiq/Sugpiaq peoples of the Kodiak Archipelago, Alaska / Courtney Carothers --The disturbed environment: the indigenous cultivation of salmon / Charles R. Menzies -- "Salmon and his people": encounters with global capitalism / Benedict J. Colombi -- Columbia River tribal fisheries: life history stages of a co-management institution / Sibyl Diver -- Conclusion: salmon trajectories along the North Pacific Rim: diversity, exchange, and human-animal relations / Marianne Elizabeth Lien.