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Accounting for Loss in Fish Stocks: A Word on Life as Biological Asset

Accounting for Loss in Fish Stocks: A Word on Life as Biological Asset Accounting for Loss in Fish Stocks A Word on Life as Biological Asset Jennifer E. Telesca ABSTRACT: Why have sea creatures plummeted in size and number, if experts have at their disposal sophisticated techniques to count and predict them, whether tuna, cod, dolphin, or whale? Th is article conducts a literature review centered on a native cat- egory that dominates discourse in marine conservation—stock—by emphasizing the word’s double meaning as both asset and population. It illuminates how a word so commonplace enables the distancing metrics of numerical abstractions to be imposed on living beings for the production of biowealth. By tracking the rise of quantitative expertise, the reader comes to know stock as a referent long aligned with the sovereign preoccupation of managing wealth and society, culminating in the mathematical model recruited today as the principal tool of authority among technocratic elites. Under the prevailing conditions of valuation, the object of marine conservation has become not a fi sh as being but a biological asset as stock. KEYWORDS: double-entry bookkeeping, expertise, fi sheries science, marine conservation, mathematical modeling, ocean resource management, overfi shing, population dynamics Introduction: Taking Stock In the world of marine conservation, there is no keyword more http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Environment and Society Berghahn Books

Accounting for Loss in Fish Stocks: A Word on Life as Biological Asset

Telesca, Jennifer E.
Environment and Society , Volume 8 (1) – Sep 1, 2017
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10.3167/ares.2017.080107
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Accounting for Loss in Fish Stocks A Word on Life as Biological Asset Jennifer E. Telesca ABSTRACT: Why have sea creatures plummeted in size and number, if experts have at their disposal sophisticated techniques to count and predict them, whether tuna, cod, dolphin, or whale? Th is article conducts a literature review centered on a native cat- egory that dominates discourse in marine conservation—stock—by emphasizing the word’s double meaning as both asset and population. It illuminates how a word so commonplace enables the distancing metrics of numerical abstractions to be imposed on living beings for the production of biowealth. By tracking the rise of quantitative expertise, the reader comes to know stock as a referent long aligned with the sovereign preoccupation of managing wealth and society, culminating in the mathematical model recruited today as the principal tool of authority among technocratic elites. Under the prevailing conditions of valuation, the object of marine conservation has become not a fi sh as being but a biological asset as stock. KEYWORDS: double-entry bookkeeping, expertise, fi sheries science, marine conservation, mathematical modeling, ocean resource management, overfi shing, population dynamics Introduction: Taking Stock In the world of marine conservation, there is no keyword more

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Environment and Society – Berghahn Books

Published: Sep 1, 2017

Keywords: double-entry bookkeeping;expertise;fisheries science;marine conservation;mathematical modeling;ocean resource management;overfishing;population dynamics

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