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develop culture as a meaningful part of fishery governance. For example, in addition to

recognising important social indicators such as employment, we should consider how fishery

governance (as a form of sustainability) involves transformations to forms of life. Accepting

and learning to recognise how socio-cultural, ecological and economic realms intersect

(discursively, strategically and materially) is a good place in which to begin to qualify

affordances and losses in fishing communities. As we have seen there is a direct relationship

between fishery management (as a component of a sustainability assemblage) and changes to

cultural forms of knowing and being, in relation to tuna. Importantly, these are forms of life

that can offer more sustainable options, as in the case of a local mattanza harvest.

Unfortunately we risk losing these more sustainable processes because of a lack of

recognition and articulation of such connections. This is not just the case for tuna in southern

Italy: my argument is relevant to fishery governance globally.

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