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Fig. 3.2 Path to sustainable development (CS Odessa Corp 2016, p. 1).

In chapter one I argued that tuna sustainability campaigns mainly promote

“fish to fork” traceability schemes that limit the sustainability narrative spatially,

materially and socio-culturally. Now we can see that this is a manifestation of a

seafood sustainability discourse that is grounded in a biological discourse. It is not

that the connection of humans with earth systems is not acknowledged in the

diagrams above or in the tuna campaigns of chapter one. Rather, the complex

interconnections of humans and the environment are often ignored, along with diverse

cultures of valuing, understanding, using and stewarding of the environment. This is a

point that van Dooren illustrates when he argues that ‘[f]ar more than “biodiversity” –

at least in the narrow sense that the term is often used – is at stake in extinction’ but

human and more-than-human ways of life are too (van Dooren, 2014, pp. 9-10). This

is also the case in the realm of marine sustainability and conservation, where there are

forms of life, knowledge, language and livelihoods at stake in addition to species and

biodiversity.

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