Becoming Salmon: Aquaculture and the Domestication of a Fish Volume 55

by Marianne Elisabeth Lien

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520280571
• ISBN13: 9780520280571
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"