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What happens to our understanding of property regimes when they are analyzed through the case of a translocated colonial fish? The British introduction of trout to South Africa led to enclosures through restrictions on access to trout streams, but also through comparisons with British landscapes 'at home'. These compound dispossessions went hand in hand with a commoning of access for White people to a fish and a sport reserved for elites. Today, debates over trout as an alien species are entangled with post-apartheid struggles over property rights and restoration. While property relations are relations between people, this case shows that relations between people and fish, and the properties of fish, help us understand processes of dispossession, commoning, enclosures, and a bioethical regime in contemporary South Africa.

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