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In this short paper, I examine how the Climate change has influenced on the local subsistence fishing Activities in southwestern Alaska preliminarily. Ethnographic data, which this paper is base on, was collected in Chevak, where more than 90 percent of the residents identify themselves as Cupik.
People of Chevak fish different species in different locations, depending on seasons. When summer comes, they fish lots of herrings and different kind of salmons and dry them at the fish camp along the river. People also go fishing in winter. They spend their weekend on fishing pikes and burbots in a place that is far from the village. According to the ethnographic data from Chevak, people thought increases in temperature is Undesirable when conducing their subsistence fishing, However，it doesn't indicate that increases in temperature and changing weather patterns have forced them to change their way of subsistence fishing drastically although scientific studies confirm the effects of climate change in Alaska is significant. But it does not mean that they are promised to keep fishing as their cultural practice in the future．
