This study uses ancient DNA analysis to identify the species of salmonids from a number of pre-contact Coast Salish settlements in Burrard Inlet, Canada dating from about 390 BCE to CE 1600. Our results indicate that chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) dominates all Burrard Inlet zooarchaeological assemblages through time, followed distantly by pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha), sockeye (Oncorhynchus nerka), coho (Oncorhynchus kisutch), and Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), indicative of very stable local fisheries. These results indicate that the four well-sampled sites appear to have been occupied during the fall and winter and perhaps during the spring.

本研究采用古DNA分析，从众多巴拉德湾，加拿大约会前接触海岸萨利希定居点的约390 BCE识别鲑鱼的种类CE 1600我们的研究结果表明，鲑鱼（大马哈鱼克塔）占主导地位的所有巴拉德湾动物考古学随着时间的流逝而组合在一起，其后依次是粉红鲑鱼（Oncorhynchus gorbuscha），红鲑鱼（Oncorhynchus nerka），银鳕鱼（Oncorhynchus kisutch）和奇努克（Chinook）（Oncorhynchus tshawytscha），这表明当地渔业非常稳定。这些结果表明，四个采样良好的地点似乎在秋季和冬季甚至春季期间都被占用。