Becoming Salmon: Aquaculture and the Domestication of a Fish by Marianne Elisabeth Lien

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  • ISBN 10 0520280563
  • ISBN 13 9780520280564
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  • Published Jul 10 2015
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 240
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher University of California Press
  • Imprint University of California Press

Publishers Text

"Becoming Salmon is the first ethnographic account of salmon aquaculture, the most recent turn in the human history of animal domestication. As fish are enrolled in new regimes of marine domestication, traditional distinctions between fish and animals are reconfigured, recasting farmed fish as sentient beings, capable of feeling pain and subject to animal welfare legislation. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Norway and Australia, the author traces farmed Atlantic salmon through contemporary industrial practices, and shows how salmon are bred to be hungry, globally mobile, and alien in their watersheds of origin. Attentive to the economic context of industrial food production as well as the mundane practices of caring for fish, it offers novel perspectives on domestication, human-animal relations, and food production"--Provided by publisher.

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