2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Enclosing Salmon: Social-Ecological Resilience and Salmon Aquaculture in Japan
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20K12303
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 64060:Environmental policy and social systems-related
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| Research Institution | Sophia University |
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Principal Investigator |
Ito Takeshi 上智大学, 国際教養学部, 教授 (10646863)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
渡邉 剛弘 上智大学, 国際教養学部, 准教授 (50439337)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | Ecology and society / Salmon aquaculture / Socionatures / Social institutions / Climate change / Adaptation |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research set out to explore how the enclosure of salmon shapes the resilience of social-ecological relations. We conducted a political ecology analysis focused on processes and relations at places of (re)production, retail, and consumption of salmon. Our research reveals that salmon and its habitat have been contested, negotiated, and enclosed as they have become a source of subsistence and a commodity of trade. In history, economic activity has led to overfishing and habitat loss, and thus produced fish stock depletion. Under such conditions, while hatcheries and land-based aquaculture have been regarded as viable solutions to resource scarcity, might be less impactful for the environment, it alienates salmon from the local ecosystems in which they connect with other species as a keystone species. We tried to disseminate and convey our findings in different formats including journal articles, book chapters, blogs, and videos.
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| Free Research Field |
Political Ecology
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
Our research recognizes that it is ethically important to understand the wider social and ecological consequences of this new salmon aquaculture technology, as salmon, along with maize, pigs, and chicken, will be the next major species to be domesticated for the industrial production of human food.
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