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Centring Fish Agency In Coastal Dam Removal And River Restoration, Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Emma Lundberg, Ludovic Drapier, Kristen C. Hychka
Centring Fish Agency In Coastal Dam Removal And River Restoration, Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Emma Lundberg, Ludovic Drapier, Kristen C. Hychka
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This article considers the agentic capacity of fish in dam removal decisions. Pairing new materialist explorations of agency with news media, policy documents, and interviews related to a suite of dam decisions in a New England, USA watershed, we identify the ways that river herring seem constrained through technocratic discourse to particular human-defined roles in dam removal discussions. We suggest, meanwhile, that existing human relationships with salmonids like brook trout might serve as a bridge for public stakeholders and restoration managers to recognise the agentic creativity of fish in dam removal and river restoration decisions.