Ecological science has had a persistent blind spot: the deep involvement of Indigenous peoples in managing their lands and waters. The return of Sea Otters from the brink of extinction, while celebrated, was enacted under a framework of settler colonialism. As voracious predators themselves, otters compete with humans for all of the same sea foods. One shellfish in particular has become a flash point for fisheries – a modest mollusc, Haliotis kamtschatkana: Northern Abalone.

This is part two of our three-part series on kelp worlds. Click here to listen to part one, Trophic Cascadia.

This episode features Kii'iljuus Barbara Wilson, Anne Salomon, and Charles Menzies.

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Bull Kelp artwork by Sarah Jim