Ancient aquaculture practices in British Columbia: Clam gardens provide insights and baselines for today’s management

• Main Authors: Groesbeck, Amy, Rowell, Kirsten, Lepofsky, Dana, Salomon, Anne K.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Western CEDAR 2014
• Subjects: Social and Behavioral Sciences; Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology; Giganteus; First Nations
• Online Access: https://cedar.wwu.edu/ssec/2014ssec/Day3/98

Maintaining food production while sustaining productive ecosystems is among the central challenges of our time, and it has been for millennia. In the Salish Sea and beyond, the ancient aquaculture strategy of constructing clam gardens, intertidal rock-walled terraces, is thought to have improved pro...