ABSTRACT
The discourses of the blue economy and their impact on Fish, Fishers, and the Ocean are examined in this chapter. It discusses the emerging governmental strategies to scale up the Ocean frontier. New commodity frontiers are being churned out, reducing the Ocean to an object rich in oil and minerals, oxygen supply, carbon dioxide sink, heat sink, biodiversity, and a significant economic pathway for global trade. Taking the case of deep-sea mining, this chapter explores how Fish and Oceans are getting dispossessed from their respective eco-social world and everyday forms of living. The Ocean, which is always fluid and challenging, has become a commodity frontier threatening to displace the web of life for Fish, Fishers, and several other beings. This chapter further argues how sustainability and sustainable development goals, guided by an anthropocentric perspective, are also ‘co-modified’ to serve the interests of capitalist expansion.
