Salmon are increasingly intensively farmed and implicated in biosecurity concerns, but they are also animals with amazing biological and social worlds who can achieve incredible feats pf strength and navigation. This content was originally aired in Season 5 of The Animal Turn Podcast.

 Featured: 

• Politics of Domestication with Chi Mao Wang on The Animal Turn.
• Shoalmates with Jonathan Balcombe on The Animal Turn. 
• What a Fish Knows by Jonathan Balcombe
• Super Fly by Jonathan Balcombe
• Kontihnawa:ra: Atlantic Salmon on Stones 
• Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate by Mark Kurlansky 
• Collective Navigation can Facilitate Passage Through Human-Made Barriers by Homeward Migrating Pacific Salmon by Connie Okasaki et al 
• Breeding with Farmed Fish is Changing the Life Cycle of Wild Salmon by Adam Vaughan
• Seaspiracy

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