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Yukon salmon collapse / Zachariah Hughes

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🗓️ 15 September 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Journalist Zachariah Hughes on his three-part series "The Last Wild Kings: A World Without Salmon?" for Anchorage Daily News and the Pulitzer Center. https://pulitzercenter.org/projects/last-wild-kings-world-without-salmon

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0:00.0

Daddy sing bass.

0:02.0

I'm a fake dinner.

0:03.0

Cause singing seems to help a trouble soul.

0:08.0

One of these days and it won't be long.

0:12.0

I'll be joined them in a song. One of these days and it won't be long.

0:12.6

I'll be joined them in a song.

0:15.1

I'm going to join the Baptist Circle of the Lathood Road.

0:18.8

Oh, you're welcome to you.

0:23.0

This is freaking cold.

0:30.0

This is hell. This is hell. Yes. Is Hell.

0:33.0

Oke-doke.

0:34.0

Staring into the abyss so you don't have to.

0:39.0

This is hell and in that abyss today we find the possible end of wild salmon,

0:48.6

specifically wild salmon in the Yukon River that stretches across Alaska and into Canada.

0:54.0

Salmon that the indigenous UPIC depend upon for their lives and livelihood.

0:59.0

Salmon that are at the center of their culture.

1:02.0

The entire region depends upon

1:03.2

salmon for jobs as one of the few successful businesses in the area, but with

1:07.5

salmon now seemingly gone after two consecutive years of record low salmon

1:11.8

counts and now a significant drop in its substitute that had

1:15.3

filled that gap chum it's not only the industry and economy that are suffering

1:21.0

but the you pickus subsistence comes from salmon.

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