Rethinking sustainability: From seafood consumption to seafood commons

Country-specific food culture and scientific knowledge transfer events – Do they influence the purchasing behaviour of seafood products?

“…Our study reinforces findings from previous research (such as Asche and Bronnmann, 2017 ; Fernández-Polanco and Luna, 2012 ; Karnad et al, 2021 ), which showed that the degree of scientific knowledge about seafood products does not automatically influence purchasing behaviour. For instance, Fernández-Polanco and Luna (2012) identified the socio-demographic background, product promotion, and price as the three most crucial seafood purchase criteria.…”

Diverse values of surplus for a community economy of fish(eries)

“…The case of Kai Ika adds to the repertoire of accounts of fisheries‐commons initiatives in the Asia‐Pacific region, including the Philippines (Gibson‐Graham, 2005), Vanuatu (Raubani, 2006), India (Karnad et al ., 2021), Myanmar (Radford and Lamb, 2020) and other locations. We show how Kai Ika responds to common challenges of inadequate management of commons resources and recognition of community level endeavours that do difference and make change.…”

“…They may materialise in new regulatory paradigms (Castilla and Defeo, 2005). Perhaps more promisingly, new calls for bottom‐up action promise to align ecological insights and ethics with community level social concerns and economic imagination (Gibson‐Graham, 2007; De Alessi, 2012; Rout et al ., 2019; Karnad et al ., 2021).…”

“…They identify a set of management challenges as well as potentiality emerging from these types of commons including 'sustaining and strengthening diverse practices’, ‘reclaiming, safeguarding and enlarging the commons’ and ‘generating surplus and marshalling and distributing it to foster expansion of the productive base’ (Gibson‐Graham, 2005, p. 17). With notable exceptions that show how fishing economies involve more than investment, wage labour, market exchange and calculations of growth and profit (Radford and Lamb, 2020; Karnad et al ., 2021), these questions are rarely posed in the literature on fishing economies.…”

To eat or not to eat: Shark and ray meat consumption as a threat to India’s elasmobranchs

“…Such research will allow us to identify leverage points for changing unsustainable behaviours (Veríssimo et al, 2020). Restaurants are an important driver of, and mirror, household seafood consumption patterns in India (Karnad et al, 2021). Restaurants have also been implicated in promoting elasmobranch meat consumption, such as in China (Fabinyi & Liu, 2014).…”