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The Nature of Borders: Salmon, Boundaries, and Bandits on the Salish Sea (Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography)

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For centuries, borders have been central to salmon management customs at the Salish Sea, but how those borders were drawn has had very different effects at 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 how one can 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 concerning the ecological effects of imposing cultural and political borders in this very important West Coast salmon fishery.

This transnational history provides an figuring out of the up to date Pacific salmon crisis and is particularly instructive as salmon conservation practices more and more approximate those of the pre-contact Native past. The Nature of Borders reorients borderlands studies toward the Canada-U.S. border and likewise provides a new view of how borders influenced fishing practices and related management efforts through the years.

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