Panel proposed at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons”

July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon

This panel seeks original contributions to the literature of salmon in any genre: poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, long-form journalism, investigative reporting, new media. The vitality of wild salmon has long fed the shifting ecologies, cultures, and economies of the Pacific Northwest and Pacific Rim continents and islands. Salmon, past and present, locate multigenerational efforts by elders and experts to sustain disrupted communal management practices. Salmon also ask …