Abstract
The sustainability paradigm in fisheries management is held legitimate to ensure food security and the ability for future generations. Conventional management principles and scientific methods may objectify data and nonhuman subjects in these practices. This paper introduces posthuman philosophies to Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management (EBFM), and it explore the case of the Columbia sea lion in the Pacific Northwest United States. We offer a multispecies livelihoods perspective as an applied approach to wildlife-human conflict by adhering to the biocultural hierarchies of the region. An era of ecological rehabilitation should focus on coadaptation between human and nonhuman peoples, including that of the Columbia sea lion. Our findings are supported by a 12-month multispecies ethnographic design. They provide robust insight to the phenomenology of salmon-sea lion-human relations. A posthuman multispecies livelihoods approach offers a way forward for fisheries governance and contends that the rights, welfare, and agency of nonhuman individuals and their habitats must be foregrounded.
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