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Hello Amanda, I cannot answer your question about anadromous fish in the southern hemisphere, but I feel compelled to clarify several other items of fact. The Haida are an aboriginal group in Canada, they live in the Queen Charlotte Islands, and the salmon runs there are not particularly large because there are not many large rivers in the QCI. The major salmon rivers drain the mainland of western North America, and their salmon supported aboriginal groups who now live in the USA and Canada. As for supporting modern canneries, the Canadian government, at least, has managed the salmon fishery as badly as it has the Atlantic cod fishery, so there are not that many canneries now either. Do sturgeon in Europe migrate to the sea and return to fresh water? North American sturgeon do not. Regards, Greg Monks, Professor, Anthropology Department, University of Manitoba, Canada. On Friday, July 15, 2005, at 07:27 AM, Amanda Kear wrote: > Hello all > Maybe it is the heat, but my mind has drawn a complete blank on this... > > Can anyone think of any anadromous fish species (those that migrate > from sea to freshwater like salmon or sturgeon) that are unique to the > Southern Hemisphere, and that support traditional fisheries? > > I'm thinking along the lines of the salmon runs of the Pacific > Northwest USA being the mainstay of the Haida people (and now of > salmon canneries!) > > cheers > amanda > > BBC Natural History Unit > Whiteladies Road, Bristol BS8 2LR, UK > tel +44 117 973 2211 (switchboard) 97 47804 (direct) > fax +44 117 974 7544 > > > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/ > > This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain > personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically > stated. > If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. > Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in > reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the > BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. > Further communication will signify your consent to this.