Pre-industrial emblem
36Heraldry, materia medica or first-fish law met the salmon before film.
Salmon culture is local: the same silhouette is a licence in one country and a logo in another.
Status bars are editorial -- they track how loudly this type spoke in English-language media and law, not a best-species score.
Status through time
Industrial take
57Canneries, ivory, longlines or shikar scaled the take.
Cinema and logo
53A film, book or NGO mark often outran the field paper.
Statute and listing
68ESA, CITES, IWC or national parks made the type a legal object.
Live-cam and tourism
43Streams, jeeps and auctions are the present tense of attention.
Portrayals
Treaty court1974
Boldt made salmon a constitutional story in the Northwest.
Dam newsreel1938-
Bonneville ladders were sold as coexistence engineering.
Removal documentary2010s
Elwha films treated sediment plumes as a happy ending.
Menuongoing
Farmed Atlantic filled supermarket cases as wild Atlantic receded.
First-fish ceremonyongoing
Coast Salish and other nations still open seasons with ritual, not only quotas.
ESA graph1991-
Snake sockeye counts became a line chart in congressional packets.
Rituals
First salmon
Return of the first fish is still a legal and spiritual opener on many rivers.
Ladder-window watches
Bonneville public chamber turns migration into a weekend.
Roe and smoke seasons
Processing calendars still follow runs more than supermarket weeks.
Sayings
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