ABSTRACT

This chapter addresses the complex entanglements of issues around the oceans, fish, and humans cannot be understood in simplistic and antagonistic binary relations. As Kathleen Stewart argues, across several detours and through a mosaic of ideas and stories, the chapter details some of the frustration and attempts to intervene in the arena of sustainable fishing, as fish-human communities. The two main ways through which framing fish is being implemented are through fishing quotas and through regulating the enclosure of parts of the coast and waters into marine parks. In order to shake up this framing and to add more elements that might be entailed in the nonrepresentation of eating, the chapter is going to turn away from the terrestrial. From the mid-eighteenth century on with the focus on terrestrial industrial development, the ocean became discursively constructed as removed from society and the terrestrial places of progress, civilisation and development.