eBook

The Nature of Borders

Lissa K. Wadewitz

2012,2015

Overview

For centuries, borders have been central to salmon management customs on the Salish Sea, but how those borders were drawn has had very different effects on the Northwest salmon fishery. Native peoples who fished the Salish Sea--which includes Puget Sound in Washington State, the Strait of Georgia in British Columbia, and the Strait of Juan de Fuca--drew social and cultural borders around salmon fishing locations and found ways to administer the resource in a sustainable way. Nineteenth-century Euro-Americans, who drew the Anglo-American border along the forty-ninth parallel, took a very different approach and ignored the salmon's patterns and life cycle. As the canned salmon industry grew and more people moved into the region, class and ethnic relations changed. Soon illegal fishing, broken contracts, and fish piracy were endemic--conditions that contributed to rampant overfishing, social tensions, and international mistrust. The Nature of Borders is about the ecological effects of imposing cultural and political borders on this critical West Coast salmon fishery. This transnational history provides an understanding of the modern Pacific salmon crisis and is particularly instructive as salmon conservation practices increasingly approximate those of the pre-contact Native past. The Nature of Borders reorients borderlands studies toward the Canada-U.S. border and also provides a new view of how borders influenced fishing practices and related management efforts over time. Watch the book trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ffLPgtCYHA&feature=channel_video_title

• Publisher: University of Washington Press,UBC Press,Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in association with University of Washington Press
• Subject: Borderlands / Borderlands -- Salish Sea Region (B.C. and Wash.) / Boundaries / British Columbia / British Columbia -- Boundaries -- Washington (State) / Environmental conditions / Ethnic relations / Fishery law and legislation / Fishery law and legislation -- British Columbia / Fishery law and legislation -- Washington (State) / Fishing / HISTORY / Indians of North America / Indians of North America -- Fishing -- Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.) / Native American / Native American & Indigenous Studies / Pacific Northwest (OR, WA) / Pirates / Pirates -- Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.) / Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.) / Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.) -- Environmental conditions / Salish Sea Region (B.C. and Wash.) / Salish Sea Region (B.C. and Wash.) -- Ethnic relations / Salmon fisheries / Salmon fisheries -- Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.) / State & Local / United States / Washington (State) / Washington (State) -- Boundaries -- British Columbia / Zoology
• ISBN: 0295991828, 9780295991825, 9780295997018, 029599701X, 0295804238, 9780295804231