Measuring social licence: What and who determines public acceptability of aquaculture in New Zealand?

Sinner, Jim; Newton, Mildred E.; Barclay, J B; Baines, James; Farrelly, Trisia; Edwards, Peter; Tipa, Gail

doi:10.1016/j.aquaculture.2020.734973

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“…A second cluster linked business values such as profit, product safety, and production rate, as well as "alignment with Chinese cultural values." A third cluster contained two animal welfare indicators and consumer-related variables relevant to social license: product quality, customer satisfaction, and trustworthiness (Fernandes et al, 2021;Sinner et al, 2020;Yunes et al, 2017). Animal welfare improvements can have economic benefits for farms (Villettaz Robichaud et al, 2019).…”

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“…However, learning uptake will be influenced by beliefs, experience, personality, and culture (Hemsworth and Coleman, 2011; Swetha et al, 2020). “Demonstration” farms disseminate knowledge around farming practices, demonstrate agricultural techniques and tools, and provide peer-to-peer advice (Ingram et al, 2018; Št’astná et al, 2019). Demonstration farms that use clearly defined messages and visual aids can improve farmer knowledge and encourage pro-welfare attitudes (Pangborn et al, 2011) and may be more effective than written training due to low literacy rates in some farming sectors (Bello-bravo et al, 2013).…”

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Use of “demonstration farm” videos to affect attitude change toward animal welfare on beef, egg, and fish farms in China

Yang,

Liu,

Nilsson

et al. 2023

Outlook Agric

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“Demonstration farms” can disseminate knowledge on farming practices and help to promote animal welfare. When on-farm visits are impractical, remote demonstrations are a feasible alternative. This study used videos of higher welfare beef, fish and free-range egg farms in China. It aimed to determine whether the videos affected attitudes and intentions toward animal welfare and whether such videos are useful training tools. Participants indicated a high acceptability of demonstration farm videos for learning about their industry and the needs of animals. Videos shifted participant attitudes toward animal welfare, but only when actively engaged in rating the farm on specific characteristics. Attitude changes suggested participants gained a greater understanding of animal welfare, a greater intention to improve on-farm welfare, and more confidence in peer support for welfare innovations after viewing the video. The findings indicate videos of demonstration farms are useful for remote training but passive viewing may be insufficient to create change, and outcomes should be monitored for success.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Use of “demonstration farm” videos to affect attitude change toward animal welfare on beef, egg, and fish farms in China

Yang,

Liu,

Nilsson

et al. 2023

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“…Persons living in the vicinity of aquaculture production may have concern about the environmental, economic, and social impacts of aquaculture, and some certification schemes target such aspects (Aas et al, 2019;Osmundsen et al, 2020a). This may be one way for the industry to strengthen their social license to operate (Kelly et al, 2017;Mather and Fanning, 2019;Sinner et al, 2020). Even though some social and socioeconomic sustainability indicators have been proposed and exist, this is the sustainability dimension that seems to have the poorest coverage generally (FAO, 2009;Alexander et al, 2020;Krause et al, 2020).…”

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Making a Web-Portal With Aquaculture Sustainability Indicators for the General Public

Mikkelsen

Myhre

Robertsen

et al. 2021

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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The sustainability of aquaculture is a complex issue that can be hard to assess and communicate. Communicating it to the general public is in many ways an even bigger challenge than communicating to experts on sustainability or aquaculture. The general public's perception of the status and challenges for sustainability is important for the development of the aquaculture industry and for society at large, through its roles both as consumers and electorate, and generally in providing or denying a “social license to operate” for the industry. This paper presents the process and challenges involved in choosing and quality assuring sustainability indicators for Norwegian aquaculture, covering environmental, economic, and social dimensions. It involved a team of researchers, a quality assurance group, IT developers and designers, a literature review, a national survey, and user-testing, all to establish criteria for selecting data and indicators and how to present them, and to do the actual production. The endpoint is a web-portal with indicators currently covering 22 themes, aimed at anyone interested in the sustainability of Norwegian fish farming. The portal does not conclude if or to what degree Norwegian fish farming is sustainable, as that would require making valuation and trade-offs among different sustainability objectives. Many indicators are automatically updated, and data are only from publicly available sources and produced by the authorities or research institutions. The portal is under continuous development, with new themes and indicators, and improving spatial and temporal resolution.

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“…More recently, Peart (2019) considered the requirement for legislative reform that specifically provides for the aquaculture industry and protects and facilitates environmental restoration. Sinner et al (2020) measured social license in relation to aquaculture and indicated that of the factors related to aquaculture operations and industry performance, the quality of a person's contacts with the industry (i.e., whether interactions were informative, respectful, pleasant and positive) was the strongest and most consistent predictor of that person's social license rating for the company or industry. Their findings were also consistent with work by the New Zealand aquaculture industry, which concluded that social license requires longer-term "relational" interactions (based on aligned values and socio-emotional factors), rather than transactional relationships (based on exchange or compensation), with communities and stakeholders (Baines and Edwards, 2018).…”

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“…New Zealand's aquaculture generated 673 million NZ$ in sales in 2018. The New Zealand Aquaculture sector is eager to grow in response to increasing national and global demand for high quality sustainable aquaculture products (Taylor pers comm); however, many inshore shellfish growing areas have reached their social carrying capacity (Banta and Gibbs, 2009;Peart, 2019;Sinner et al, 2020). Salmon aquaculture is challenged in these same waters by increasing temperatures and low flow sites (Heasman pers comm).…”

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Extending New Zealand’s Marine Shellfish Aquaculture Into Exposed Environments – Adapting to Modern Anthropogenic Challenges

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New Zealand has a large exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of which the area between the 30 and 50 m bathymetric zone offers the most prospects for shellfish production. Only 0.3% of this zone would be required to increase New Zealand's shellfish production by 150,000 t. The Enabling Open Ocean Aquaculture Program, funded by the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, is a collaboration aiming to develop technologies that will enable the extension of aquaculture into New Zealand's harsh and challenging open ocean conditions, and facilitate adaptation to the escalating effects of climate change in inner shore environments. New Zealand has started expanding aquaculture into exposed environments, allowing farm expansion to meet increasing demand for aquaculture products but also enabling ventures into new aquatic products. Expansion into offshore developments is in direct response to mounting stakeholder interaction in inshore coastal areas. This document presents a brief overview of the potential zones for open ocean aquaculture, the influence of climate change, and two potential shellfish operational systems that may facilitate the expansion of shellfish aquaculture onto New Zealand's exposed ocean sites.

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Measuring social licence: What and who determines public acceptability of aquaculture in New Zealand?

Cited by 30 publications

References 33 publications

Use of “demonstration farm” videos to affect attitude change toward animal welfare on beef, egg, and fish farms in China

Use of “demonstration farm” videos to affect attitude change toward animal welfare on beef, egg, and fish farms in China

Making a Web-Portal With Aquaculture Sustainability Indicators for the General Public

Extending New Zealand’s Marine Shellfish Aquaculture Into Exposed Environments – Adapting to Modern Anthropogenic Challenges

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