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Becoming salmon : aquaculture and the domestication of a fish

Lien, Marianne E., author

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\"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.

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Subject: Salmon farming. / Salmon farming Social aspects.
• ISBN: 9780520280564, 0520280563, 9780520280571, 0520280571

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
SH167.S17 L54 2015	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE