“We managed to live in the world for thousands of years without the massive ecological destruction that’s happening now. “It’s time to put the library back together and learn about all the things my ancestors did to ensure that there was enough fish and octopus – looking after and respecting the environment.” “In this time of climate change, it’s really important to acknowledge Indigenous mariculture as conservation and recognize First Nations governance over our land and resources,” says Wilson. Kii’iljuus Barbara Wilson, a Haida Matriarch and Indigenous scholar from the Cumshewa Eagle Clan collaborated with the team to highlight the octopus houses of Haida Gwaii. coast including, stone fish traps, clam gardens and octopus houses in Haida Gwaii - where Haida ancestors created these intertidal ponds using mounds of rock that attract octopus to live in them, which they can then harvest,” Earle says. “There are various types of sea gardens off the B.C. The collaboration brought Salomon’s graduate class, including masters student Heather Earle, to Hawai’i to learn about and assist in the restoration of a fish pond.Īfter graduation, Earle co-led the design and creation of the story map, along with Salomon, Poe and SFU archaeologist Dana Lepofsky, which synthesizes sea gardens from around the world including B.C. Salomon then reached out to Melissa Poe, an environmental anthropologist at Washington Sea Grant, about incorporating the story map project into the Indigenous Aquaculture Collaborative Network, which is a community of practice consisting of Pacific-region Sea Grant offices Northwest Tribes and First Nations, Native Hawaiian and Indigenous communities and organizations and universities working to advance Indigenous aquaculture. The students came up with the idea of an interactive story map. Salomon included a synthesis of Indigenous mariculture into her graduate class on social-ecological resilience. Simon Fraser University resource & environmental management professor Anne Salomon was inspired by renowned fisheries scientist Daniel Pauly, who told Salomon that she could elevate the importance of clam gardens by placing them within a global context. The story map was created by the Pacific Sea Garden Collective - an international collaboration of Indigenous knowledge holders, university researchers, community practitioners and artists. Knowledge of their ancestral mariculture practices is being revitalized across the Pacific and information about these cultivation practices has been collected in a new interactive and “living” story map of stewarded sea gardens across the Pacific launched today. Indigenous People have been stewarding the ocean for thousands of years.
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