Assembling the sea: materiality, movement and regulatory practices in the Cardigan Bay scallop fishery
Assembling the sea: materiality, movement and regulatory practices in the Cardigan Bay scallop fishery
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聚集海洋：卡迪根湾扇贝渔业的物质性、运动和监管实践
DOI：
10.1177/1474474012463665
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发表时间：
2013
影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
Christopher Bear
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作者：
Christopher Bear
本文调查了威尔士开衫湾扇贝疏浚的争议。该地区的扇贝渔业在1980年代之前相对较小，但在过去五年中捕捞量急剧增加。人们对增加捕捞活动的影响表示关切，特别是对海湾海豚种群的潜在影响，这是将其指定为特别保护区的基础。我表明，争议不仅是关于人类管理的濒危鱼类种群，但也涉及扇贝，海豚，海洋，海底，捕鱼技术和监管措施的行动。我还表明，在开衫湾的事件往往是共同产生的事件和行动更远。这些主题是通过聚集理论的透镜来研究的，地理学家尚未广泛参与该理论。这强调了异质性和新兴性，并鼓励关注领土化（去领土化）进程。在本文中，我对比了监管制度的领土化做法与海豚，海洋和海底的平滑运动，显示了这些非人类的行为如何使环境损害的归因复杂化。通过这一点，本文解决了缺乏关注的海洋文化地理学家，特别是通过关注的物质性和多维性。
This paper investigates the controversy around scallop dredging in Cardigan Bay, Wales. The area’s scallop fishery was relatively small until the 1980s but has seen dramatic increases in catches in the past five years. Concerns have been raised about the effect of increasing fishing effort, especially for its potential impacts on the Bay’s population of bottlenose dolphins, which were the basis of its designation as a Special Area of Conservation. I show that the controversy is not merely about human management of an endangered fish stock, but also involves the actions of scallops, dolphins, the sea, seabed, fishing technologies and regulatory practices. I also show that the events in Cardigan Bay frequently are co-produced by events and actions further afield. These topics are examined through the lens of assemblage theory, with which geographers have yet to widely engage. This emphasizes heterogeneity and emergence, and encourages a focus on processes of (de)territorialization. In the paper, I contrast the territorializing practices of regulatory regimes with the smoothing movements of dolphins, the sea and the seabed, showing how the actions of these nonhumans complicate attributions of environmental harm. Through this, the paper addresses the lack of attention paid to the sea by cultural geographers, particularly through a focus on materiality and multi-dimensionality.