Fish

This note is about fish as a form of life, as a concept in human culture, etc.

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Food

Clouette, Fabien. “From ‘Noble’ to ‘Ugly’ but ‘Well-Worked’ Fish—Food Morals in the Breton Fish Landings.” Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies 103, no. 4 (2022): 393–416. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41130-022-00185-z.

Wadiwel, Dinesh Joseph. “Do Fish Resist?” Cultural Studies Review 22, no. 1 (2016): 196–242. https://doi.org/10/gmns2z.

Sentience, Knowledge, and Ethics

Brown, Culum. “Fish Intelligence, Sentience and Ethics.” Animal Cognition 18, no. 1 (2015): 1–17. https://doi.org/10/f6vfv5.

Lambert, Helen, Amelia Cornish, Angie Elwin, and Neil D’Cruze. “A Kettle of Fish: A Review of the Scientific Literature for Evidence of Fish Sentience.” Animals 12, no. 9 (2022): 1182. https://doi.org/10/g5twkr.

Balcombe, Jonathan P. What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2016.

Aquaculture, Welfare, and Ethics

Arechavala-Lopez, Pablo, Maria J. Cabrera-Álvarez, Caroline M. Maia, and Joao L. Saraiva. “Environmental Enrichment in Fish Aquaculture: A Review of Fundamental and Practical Aspects.” Reviews in Aquaculture 14, no. 2 (2022): 704–28. https://doi.org/10/gm9wxr.

Buttacavoli, Matthew. “An Anthropologist Fails to Become a Fish: Multispecies Sensing in the Anthropocene.” Australian Journal of Environmental Education 40, no. 2 (2024): 276–87. https://doi.org/10/g9xcvp.

Cooper, Katja, Hugh Breakey, Melea Lewis, Rebecca Marshallsay, Alex Naraniecki, and Charles Sampford. “Aquaculture Ethics: A Systematic Quantitative Review and Critical Analysis of Aquaculture Ethics Scholarship.” Fish and Fisheries 24, no. 2 (2023): 321–38. https://doi.org/10/g53g5r.

Franks, Becca, Christopher Ewell, and Jennifer Jacquet. “Animal Welfare Risks of Global Aquaculture.” Science Advances 7, no. 14 (2021): eabg0677. https://doi.org/10/gmhc43.

Huntingford, Felicity, Malcolm Jobling, and Sunil Kadri, eds. Aquaculture and Behavior. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2012.

Lund, Vonne, Cecilie M. Mejdell, Helena Röcklinsberg, Ray Anthony, and Tore Håstein. “Expanding the Moral Circle: Farmed Fish as Objects of Moral Concern.” Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 75, no. 2 (2007): 109–18. https://doi.org/10/bz99t3.

Power, Nicole, Jessica Melvin, and Charles Mather. “Multispecies Hierarchies and Capitalist Value: Insights from Salmon Aquaculture.” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 5, no. 4 (2022): 1947–65. https://doi.org/10/g53hg2.

Rubio-Ramon, Guillem, and Monica Pons-Hernandez. “The Paradox of Saving Fish by Eating Them: Food Crime at the Intersection of Green Criminology and Political Ecology.” European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, ahead of print, 2025. https://doi.org/10/g9xcvq.

Pain

Braithwaite, Victoria. Do Fish Feel Pain? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Political Status

Lien, Marianne Elisabeth, and John Law. “‘Emergent Aliens’: On Salmon, Nature, and Their Enactment.” Ethnos 76, no. 1 (2011): 65–87. https://doi.org/10/crnmfn.

Ethics

Giske, Jarl, Magda L. Dumitru, Katja Enberg, et al. 2025. “Premises for Digital Twins Reporting on Atlantic Salmon Wellbeing.” Behavioural Processes 226: 105163. https://doi.org/10/g9vt4g.

Message, Reuben, and Beth Greenhough. 2019. “‘But It’s Just a Fish’: Understanding the Challenges of Applying the 3Rs in Laboratory Aquariums in the UK.” Animals 9 (12): 1075. https://doi.org/10/gg6q3t.

Michaelson, Eliot, and Andrew Reisner. 2018. “Ethics for Fish.” In The Oxford Handbook of Food Ethics, edited by Anne Barnhill, Mark Budolfson, and Tyler Doggett. Oxford University Press.

Prentice, Pamela M., Thomas M. Houslay, and Alastair J. Wilson. 2022. “Exploiting Animal Personality to Reduce Chronic Stress in Captive Fish Populations.” Frontiers in Veterinary Science 9: 1046205. https://doi.org/10/g9vt4k.

Probyn, Elspeth. 2020. “How to Represent a Fish?” Cultural Studies Review 23 (1): 36–59.

Sloman, Katherine A., Ian A. Bouyoucos, Edward J. Brooks, and Lynne U. Sneddon. 2019. “Ethical Considerations in Fish Research.” Journal of Fish Biology 94 (4): 556–77. https://doi.org/10/pfhq.

Sneddon, Lynne U., and Jonathan A. C. Roques. 2023. “Pain Recognition in Fish.” Veterinary Clinics: Exotic Animal Practice 26 (1): 1–10. https://doi.org/10/gq82rk.

Resistance

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Rights
Resistance
animal labour
animal property, animal intellectual property
animal citizenship

De Vos, Rick. 2023. “Crypsis, Discovery and Subjectivity: Unsettling Fish Histories.” In Decolonising Animals, edited by Rick De Vos. Sydney University Press.