Becoming Salmon
Subtitle: Aquaculture and the Domestication of a Fish
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Jun 30, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780520280564
Description: "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.
Notes: Source title: Becoming Salmon: Aquaculture and the Domestication of a Fish (California Studies in Food and Culture)