The article addresses the topic of coastal transformations through the lens of the critical heritage approach. It focuses on fish as a vehicle to assess how heritage as a particular type of imaginary and discourse conveys the social, cultural, political and economic transformations of the area. The two fish chosen to represent the heritage imaginaries in the Northeast Adriatic Bay of Piran are the wild mullet and farmed seabass. Both species are seen as local but each in its particular way. Mullet has acquired a local status by appearing annually in the Bay of Piran where local traditions developed around its catch. Farmed seabass became local through the process of domestication after it traversed large distances across the land to arrive in the Bay’s meshed cages. Through detailed ethnographies and textual and visual discourse analysis, the authors find an array of competing and complementary heritage imaginaries surrounding both fish. These imaginaries highlight frictions as a central part of the present-day life on the coast as well as unease about the future, and can be discerned in the tense relation between fishing and mariculture, the competing ideologies of the local, national and the global and the disappearance of previous ways of life in the face of rapid coastal transformation.

本文通过批判性遗产方法的视角探讨了沿海转型的主题。它侧重于以鱼类为载体，评估遗产作为一种特定类型的想象和话语如何传达该地区的社会、文化、政治和经济转型。被选为代表皮兰东北亚得里亚湾传统想象的两种鱼是野生鲻鱼和养殖鲈鱼。这两个物种都被视为本地物种，但各有其独特的方式。鲻鱼每年都会出现在皮兰湾，从而获得了当地的地位，当地的传统围绕着鲻鱼的捕获而发展起来。养殖的鲈鱼经过长途跋涉到达海湾后，通过驯化过程成为本地鱼类。s 网状笼子。通过详细的民族志以及文本和视觉话语分析，作者发现了围绕这两种鱼的一系列竞争和互补的遗产想象。这些想象强调了当今沿海生活的核心部分——摩擦以及对未来的不安，并且可以从渔业和海水养殖之间的紧张关系、地方、国家和全球意识形态的竞争中看出。面对快速的沿海转型，以前的生活方式消失了。