Climate change in the Venetian Lagoon and new forms of food acculturation. The local challenge of small-scale fishing in the Anthropocene.

The Venetian Lagoon is characterized by an essentially aquatic and insular type of life. It is an intense symbiotic relationship between humans, water, and other non-human inhabitants. This hybrid dimension is particularly present among fishermen, who perceive the lagoon as a domesticated space, an extension of the emerged lands. In the peculiar lagoon environment, which consists of water and land inter- penetrating each other, Venice has had to find adequate strategies to stock up on food since its foundation. The lagoon takes on the dimension of the 'countryside'. Today the lagoon environment is changing due to climate change but not only. The age-old balances established by humans are changing and new species are making their appearance. All of this requires new knowledge and skills if the fishermen want to continue to make a profitable and successful fishing. Today, new foods begin to appear in the city's fish markets and new food tastes spread. These new processes demonstrate how food is above all a cultural process influenced by the environment.