Factors Affecting Consumers’ Beliefs About Aquaculture

Fernández-Polanco, José; Sotorrío, Ladislao Luna

doi:10.1080/13657305.2012.649047

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“…So how has the rise of aquaculture influenced consumption patterns? Demographic characteristics, education, place of purchase and generic advertising have been found to determine beliefs and attitudes about aquaculture production ( Fernández-Polanco & Lunes, 2012 ). A survey of women consumers in Belgium, for example, found that consumption of wild-caught fish was influenced by sustainability and ethical considerations whilst that of farmed fish by perceptions of quality ( Verbeke et al , 2007 ).…”

Section: Fish Food and Nutrition Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Meeting the food and nutrition needs of the poor: the role of fish and the opportunities and challenges emerging from the rise of aquaculture^a

Beveridge

Thilsted²,

Phillips

et al. 2013

Journal of Fish Biology

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People who are food and nutrition insecure largely reside in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa and for many, fish represents a rich source of protein, micronutrients and essential fatty acids. The contribution of fish to household food and nutrition security depends upon availability, access and cultural and personal preferences. Access is largely determined by location, seasonality and price but at the individual level it also depends upon a person's physiological and health status and how fish is prepared, cooked and shared among household members. The sustained and rapid expansion of aquaculture over the past 30 years has resulted in >40% of all fish now consumed being derived from farming. While aquaculture produce increasingly features in the diets of many Asians, it is much less apparent among those living in Sub-Saharan Africa. Here, per capita fish consumption has grown little and despite the apparently strong markets and adequate biophysical conditions, aquaculture has yet to develop. The contribution of aquaculture to food and nutrition security is not only just an issue of where aquaculture occurs but also of what is being produced and how and whether the produce is as accessible as that from capture fisheries. The range of fish species produced by an increasingly globalized aquaculture industry differs from that derived from capture fisheries. Farmed fishes are also different in terms of their nutrient content, a result of the species being grown and of rearing methods. Farmed fish price affects access by poor consumers while the size at which fish is harvested influences both access and use. This paper explores these issues with particular reference to Asia and Africa and the technical and policy innovations needed to ensure that fish farming is able to fulfil its potential to meet the global population's food and nutrition needs.

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Section: Fish Food and Nutrition Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Meeting the food and nutrition needs of the poor: the role of fish and the opportunities and challenges emerging from the rise of aquaculture^a

Beveridge

Thilsted²,

Phillips

et al. 2013

Journal of Fish Biology

288

192

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“…According to the authors, their results imply that sustainability labels do not have much influence on consumers' product choices. Notwithstanding some more recent papers focused upon specific aspects of farmed seafood (Fernández-Polanco and Luna, 2012;Fernández-Polanco et al, 2013;Roheim et al, 2012) there remain very few studies on the determinants for buying sustainable seafood . This paper presents results from a study, undertaken in the UK, with the goal of contributing to the scarce literature about the determinants of sustainable seafood consumption.…”

Section: Previous Research On Sustainable Food and Seafoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

What determines British consumers’ motivation to buy sustainable seafood?

Honkanen

Young

2015

British Food Journal

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Access to this document was granted through an Emerald subscription provided by emeraldsrm:198285 [] For AuthorsIf you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of determinants of consumers' buying intentions for sustainable seafood. Design/methodology/approach -Survey data from 755 representative respondents in the UK were collected. Structural equation modelling was used to analyse the data. The theory of planned behaviour was used as a framework for the analysis, with an additional variable, personal norm, which seems to be especially relevant for environmental behaviour. Findings -The results confirmed the expected relationships: the motivation to buy sustainable seafood is increased by a positive attitude towards buying sustainable seafood, perceived pressure from important others such as family, friends and colleagues, and by a strong moral obligation. Attitude towards buying sustainable seafood was the strongest predictor of intention found in the study. To reach a goal of consumers placing greater emphasis upon purchasing more sustainable seafood, both attitudinal and normative messages could be used. Further implications of the findings and the scope for further research are discussed.Research limitations/implications -The study is correlational in nature, thus limiting the causal inferences that can be made from the results. It does, however, help to explain the relationships in explored in the model. Originality/value -This paper addresses the issue of motivation to buy sustainable seafood which has not received much attention in literature, but is an important issue for anyone trying to increase consumer sustainable behaviour.

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“…The relatively low number of studies exploring these questions usually addressed consumers' perspectives, and it is now evident that they lack knowledge on aquaculture species and production methods, including IMTA (Shuve et al 2009, Barrington et al 2010). Yet, consumers do recognize socio-economic benefits from aquaculture and are concerned with sustainability issues (Whitmarsh & Palmieri 2009, Barrington et al 2010, Fernandez-Polanco & Luna 2012. Aquaponics, for example, is regarded as the fittest land-based IMTA for sustainable urban farming (Specht et al 2014), and a European consumer survey about that mode of production found a positive attitude towards local products (Milicic et al 2017).…”

Section: Present Setbacks and Future Opportunitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unravelling the potential of halophytes for marine integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA)— a perspective on performance, opportunities and challenges

Custódio¹,

Villasante²,

Cremades³

et al. 2017

Aquacult. Environ. Interact.

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The present study critically analyses peer-reviewed literature addressing the potential of halophytes to remediate nutrient-rich effluents from marine and coastal aquaculture, as well as the potential for their economic valorization, from human consumption to an untapped source of valuable secondary metabolites with pharmaceutical potential. The growing body of evidence discussed in this review supports the perspective that halophytes can become a new source of nutrition and other high-value compounds and be easily incorporated into saltwater-based integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA) systems. In this context, halophytes act as extractors of dissolved inorganic nutrients, primarily nitrogen and phosphate, usually wasted in marine aquaculture farms. Phytoremediation using halophytes has been proven to be an efficient solution, and several ways exist to couple this practice with land-based marine aquaculture systems, namely through constructed wetlands and aquaponics. Focusing research on ecosystem-based approaches to aquaculture production will provide valuable data for producers and policy makers in order to improve decision making towards a sustainable development of this economic sector. Ecointensification of aquaculture through IMTA will potentially increase the overall productivity and resilience of the sector, and halophytes, in particular, are on the verge of becoming key players for the diversification and promotion of land-based IMTA. This work specifically documents the uncharted potential of Halimione portulacoides, an important halophyte in European salt marsh ecosystems, as a new extractive species for IMTA.

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Factors Affecting Consumers’ Beliefs About Aquaculture

Cited by 39 publications

References 34 publications

Meeting the food and nutrition needs of the poor: the role of fish and the opportunities and challenges emerging from the rise of aquaculture^a

Meeting the food and nutrition needs of the poor: the role of fish and the opportunities and challenges emerging from the rise of aquaculture^a

What determines British consumers’ motivation to buy sustainable seafood?

Unravelling the potential of halophytes for marine integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA)— a perspective on performance, opportunities and challenges

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Factors Affecting Consumers’ Beliefs About Aquaculture

Cited by 39 publications

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Meeting the food and nutrition needs of the poor: the role of fish and the opportunities and challenges emerging from the rise of aquaculturea

Meeting the food and nutrition needs of the poor: the role of fish and the opportunities and challenges emerging from the rise of aquaculturea

What determines British consumers’ motivation to buy sustainable seafood?

Unravelling the potential of halophytes for marine integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA)— a perspective on performance, opportunities and challenges

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Meeting the food and nutrition needs of the poor: the role of fish and the opportunities and challenges emerging from the rise of aquaculture^a

Meeting the food and nutrition needs of the poor: the role of fish and the opportunities and challenges emerging from the rise of aquaculture^a