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Sedimentary evidence of increasing river discharge from Namu Lake, B.C. during a period of fluctuation in the staple pink salmon fishery (2015)
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Pacific salmon has been a vital resource to the people of British Columbia as far back as 9,700 years before present (BP). Sediment cores collected from Namu Lake, British Columbia provide evidence for paleoenvironmental conditions that may have led to the decline of the pink salmon population ~3400 cal years BP. Archaeological evidence obtained from the Namu shell midden reveal fluctuating pink salmon populations at this time. Particle size analysis of the lake sediment cores indicate...