Making Sturgeon Count
Settler Colonial (De)mobilizations of Fish in the Columbia River
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3924945 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ashton Wesner (All Things Bugs (United States), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Pages | 109-142 |
| Publication date | 2025-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Osiris (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0369-7827 • E-ISSN: 1933-8287 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/735520 |
| OpenAlex | W4411229607 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 41 |
When the United States dammed the Columbia River, the migratory natural history of the river’s oldest and largest fish, white sturgeon, was obstructed. Settler fisheries science did not account for sturgeon movement in regulatory configurations of the river’s ecosystem. This article examines how practices of counting and constructing the value of fish shape and are shaped by sturgeon in motion. The article uses ethnographic data, hatchery archives, scientific reports, and the published testimonies of Yakama and other Indigenous fishers to reveal the relationship between settler colonial cultural and empirical practices of measuring, monitoring, and monetizing sturgeon and their movements from the late 1800s to the present
Biology · Fish · Fishery · Sturgeon · Zoology · Fish Ecology and Management Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
Networks of Power
Empire's Tracks
Sacrifice Zones
Dams and tribal land loss in the United States
Navigating Sturgeon Futures at the Nexus of Extinction and Commodification
The Corps of Engineers and Celilo Falls
Inconstant Advocacy
The Changing Experience of Nature
Boils Swell & Whorl Pools
Wastelanding
Indigenous mobility traditions, colonialism, and the anthropocene
Rivers of Empire
Nonhuman Charisma
The Underwater Naturalist
Defenders and Dissidents
Bringing Dinosaurs Back to Life
An Unexpected Politics of Population
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |