Introduction

Most fish never left the primordial waters. They stayed submerged in marine and freshwater environments and evolved over millions of years alongside molluscs and crustaceans. The fish is depicted in such remarkable detail that experts identified it as a spawning Atlantic Salmon. A remarkable diversity of terrestrial fish farms has emerged across the globe since the Neolithic era. These farms form a rich, transcultural heritage of aquaculture landscapes. Aquaculture landscapes shape, and are shaped by, a range of encounters between fish and humans. Contemporary practitioners and academics in the field of landscape architecture have shown leadership by envisioning, theorizing, and enacting progressive forms of aquaculture. A regrounding of aquaculture in the wisdom of sustainable indigenous practices is advocated in many quarters of the marine and freshwater sciences.