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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824515303321

Autore

Lien Marianne E.

Titolo

Becoming salmon : aquaculture and the domestication of a fish / / Marianne Elisabeth Lien

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-520-96183-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

California Studies in Food and Culture ; ; 55

Disciplina

639.3/755

Soggetti

Salmon farming

Salmon farming - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Salmon in the Making -- 2. Tracking Salmon -- 3. Becoming Hungry: Introducing the Salmon Domus -- 4. Becoming Biomass: Appetite, Numbers, and Managerial Control -- 5. Becoming Scalable: Speed, Feed, and Temporal Alignments -- 6. Becoming Sentient: Choreographies of Caring and Killing -- 7. Becoming Alien: Back to the River -- 8. Tails -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Becoming Salmon is the first ethnographic account of salmon aquaculture, the most recent turn in the human history of animal domestication. In this careful and nuanced study, Marianne Elisabeth Lien explores how the growth of marine domestication has blurred traditional distinctions between fish and animals, recasting farmed fish as sentient beings, capable of feeling pain and subject to animal-welfare legislation. Drawing on fieldwork on and off salmon farms, Lien follows farmed Atlantic salmon through contemporary industrial husbandry, exposing how salmon are bred to be hungry, globally mobile, and "alien" in their watersheds of origin. Attentive to both the economic context of industrial food production and the materiality of human-animal relations, this book highlights the fragile and contingent relational practices that constitute salmon aquaculture and the multiple ways of "becoming salmon" that emerge as a result.