Catching the released: conservation and aquaculture's shared colonial lineages in Newfoundland and Labrador ...

• Main Author: Baird, Christopher
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Memorial University of Newfoundland 2022
• Subjects: Newfoundland; Atlantic salmon; Mi’kmaw
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.48336/ty1j-x179; https://research.library.mun.ca/15781/

Aquaculture is a booming industry in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Industrial salmon farming has potential to provide employment and generate economic activity in a region previously devastated by the collapse of northern cod stocks. However, the aquaculture industry, which was once heavily supported by conservation groups and thought to alleviate pressure on wild salmon stocks, is now a suspected contributor to the decline of wild salmon. After decades of operation, it has become clear that the practice of commercial salmon farming has many shortcomings. Although salmon anglers and aquaculturists appear to be in diametrically opposed conflict on the question of further aquaculture development in the province, these groups share a common colonial lineage in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Left out of this discussion are the voices of the Mi’kmaw salmon anglers of Miawpukek First Nation who have been profoundly impacted by the decline of wild Atlantic salmon, a fish of historical, ...