Simon R. Bush and Peter Oosterveer, Governing Sustainable Seafood (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2019), 207 pp.

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 653-656
Author(s):  
Megan Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Seafood

scholarly journals Fraud in highly appreciated fish detected from DNA in Europe may undermine the Development Goal of sustainable fishing in Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Blanco-Fernandez ◽  
Alba Ardura ◽  
Paula Masiá ◽  
Noemi Rodriguez ◽  
Laura Voces ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Pcr Amplification ◽  
Molecular Tools ◽  
Food Authenticity ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Fish Samples ◽  
Sustainable Seafood ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Unregulated Fishing ◽  
High Effort

AbstractDespite high effort for food traceability to ensure safe and sustainable consumption, mislabeling persists on seafood markets. Determining what drives deliberate fraud is necessary to improve food authenticity and sustainability. In this study, the relationship between consumer’s appreciation and fraudulent mislabeling was assessed through a combination of a survey on consumer’s preferences (N = 1608) and molecular tools applied to fish samples commercialized by European companies. We analyzed 401 samples of fish highly consumed in Europe and worldwide (i.e. tuna, hake, anchovy, and blue whiting) through PCR-amplification and sequencing of a suite of DNA markers. Results revealed low mislabeling rate (1.9%), with a higher mislabeling risk in non-recognizable products and significant mediation of fish price between consumer´s appreciation and mislabeling risk of a species. Furthermore, the use of endangered species (e.g. Thunnus thynnus), tuna juveniles for anchovy, and still not regulated Merluccius polli hake as substitutes, points towards illegal, unreported and/or unregulated fishing from African waters. These findings reveal a worrying intentional fraud that hampers the goal of sustainable seafood production and consumption, and suggest to prioritize control efforts on highly appreciated species.

scholarly journals The Sustainable Seafood Movement Is a Governance Concert, with the Audience Playing a Key Role

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Barclay ◽  
Alice Miller
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Market Share ◽  
Consumer Demand ◽  
Price Premiums ◽  
Private Standards ◽  
Sustainable Seafood ◽  
Individual Actor ◽  
Qualitative Literature ◽  
Sustainable Sourcing

Private standards, including ecolabels, have been posed as a governance solution for the global fisheries crisis. The conventional logic is that ecolabels meet consumer demand for certified “sustainable” seafood, with “good” players rewarded with price premiums or market share and “bad” players punished by reduced sales. Empirically, however, in the markets where ecolabeling has taken hold, retailers and brands—rather than consumers—are demanding sustainable sourcing, to build and protect their reputation. The aim of this paper is to devise a more accurate logic for understanding the sustainable seafood movement, using a qualitative literature review and reflection on our previous research. We find that replacing the consumer-driven logic with a retailer/brand-driven logic does not go far enough in making research into the sustainable seafood movement more useful. Governance is a “concert” and cannot be adequately explained through individual actor groups. We propose a new logic going beyond consumer- or retailer/brand-driven models, and call on researchers to build on the partial pictures given by studies on prices and willingness-to-pay, investigating more fully the motivations of actors in the sustainable seafood movement, and considering audience beyond the direct consumption of the product in question.

scholarly journals Sustainable Seafood Consumption in Action: Relevant Behaviors and their Predictors

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 2313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel Richter ◽  
John Thøgersen ◽  
Christian Klöckner
Keyword(s):  
Seafood Consumption ◽  
Sustainable Seafood

scholarly journals THE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT CONCEPT FOR SUSTAINABLE SEAFOOD PRODUCTION: A REVIEW

1998 ◽  
Vol 8 (sp1) ◽  
pp. S63-S71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl Folke ◽  
Nils Kautsky ◽  
Håkan Berg ◽  
Åsa Jansson ◽  
Max Troell
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Footprint ◽  
Sustainable Seafood

Expanding the concept of sustainable seafood using Life Cycle Assessment

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 1073-1093 ◽  
Author(s):  
Friederike Ziegler ◽  
Sara Hornborg ◽  
Bridget S Green ◽  
Ole Ritzau Eigaard ◽  
Anna K Farmery ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Sustainable Seafood

The Shifting Politics of Sustainable Seafood Consumerism

2018 ◽  
pp. 330-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon R. Bush ◽  
Cathy A. Roheim
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
European Union ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
The United States ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Political Consumerism ◽  
Conventional View ◽  
Sustainable Seafood ◽  
Supply Mode

Seafood has emerged as a key testing ground for understanding the role of different value chain actors in driving sustainability. The conventional view, developed in the late 1990s, is that sustainable seafood is driven by the choices and practices of consumers in major importing markets, such as the United States and the European Union. This view led to the development of a range of boycott and buycott initiatives in the 2000s. Many of the buycott initiatives have been formalised into consumer-facing tools, such as certification, recommendation lists, and traceability. More recently celebrity chefs have also joined in, shaping sustainable seafood as cuisine. While these initiatives and tools initially assumed a demand-shapes-supply mode of political consumerism, they have all broadened to include multiple modes of political consumerism. The future of the sustainable seafood movement is therefore dependent on a clearer articulation of diverse modes of political consumerism.

Enhancing Sustainable Consumption in China: A Seafood Example

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-198
Author(s):  
Juan He
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Purchasing Decisions ◽  
Chinese Consumers ◽  
Consumer Law ◽  
Sustainable Seafood ◽  
Legal Entitlement ◽  
Right To Information ◽  
Willingness To Purchase ◽  
The Right

Abstract In recent years, market surveys on sustainable seafood consumption have analysed Chinese people’s willingness to purchase ecolabelled seafood produced and imported into China. Endogenous and exogenous determinants are thereby unveiled to explore Chinese consumers’ sustainability consciousness, purchasing decisions, and the means of bridging the divide. This article builds upon and adds to these empirical findings with a market-based and information lens. It draws inspiration from analysing the growing interest of younger and middle-class consumers in acquiring seafood information; integrative sourcing and marketing strategies of intermediary businesses to deliver such information; and awakening of public regulators to the imperative of realizing the right to information of less-informed parties. Instead of segregating these stakeholders along a linear supply chain, the study emphasizes the deepening of a consumer-centric information network underpinned by supply chain transparency and traceability. It thus aims to inform a steady shift from a production-oriented to a consumer-oriented seafood management paradigm through systematic reforms of China’s consumer law. To encourage and empower sustainable consumption, the ‘consumer’ notion needs proper broadening and consumers’ right to know should be recognized as a judicial and self-contained legal entitlement with enforcement safeguards.

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