'A soul wound': a First Nation built its culture around salmon. Now they have to fly it in frozen

As chinook numbers migrating to Canada fall to record lows, communities are resorting to importing fish to keep their traditions aliveIn late summer every year, when buckbrush on the mountains turns yellow and the soapberries grow soft and translucent, families from Little Salmon Carmacks First Nation gather at the mouth of Tatchun creek to fish for their namesake.The creek itself, in Canada's far-flung Yukon territory, is named after the fin on a salmon's back that sticks out of the water as the fish fights its way upstream. Tatchun empties into the Yukon River, home to the world's longest run of chinook salmon. Elders say the fish used to be so plentiful they could have walked across the water on their backs. Continue reading...