Seafood Sustainability - Series I

• Other Authors: Pradhan, Naresh C. (Editor), Stohs, Stephen M. (Editor), Cai, Junning (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Research & information: general; Biology, life sciences; Fisheries & related industries; corporate social responsibility; ecolabels; ethical consumption; green marketing; supply chain management; sustainable seafood; contamination; fish; fisheries; flame retardants; health; PBDE; seafood; trophic level; sustainability; sensory; consumers; artisanal fishers; double-hurdle; fish marketing; fish mothers; aquaculture; IMTA; ecolabel; choice experiments; latent class; WTP; Triple bottom line fisheries management; harvest strategy development; social objectives; economic objectives; ecological objectives; shrimp feed; fishmeal; plant ingredients; marine resources; terrestrial resources; contingent valuation method; double-bounded dichotomous choice; environmental economics; environmental psychology; New Ecological Paradigm; seafood preference; copper-alloy nets; fishing community; strategic planning; port; California; school lunch programme; Italy; healthy nutrition; oily fish; Almost Ideal Demand System; Deepwater Horizon; frozen seafood market; retail scanner data
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This special edition, Seafood Sustainability Series I, includes two articles on seafood consumption, four on sustainable capture fisheries, and four on sustainable aquaculture. The articles on consumption explore an alternative perspective on sustainable seafood movement governance to consumer- or retail/brand-driven logic and analyze fish tissues for human consumption to detect contaminants like flame retardant chemicals hazardous to human health sourced from microplastic pollutants. Articles on capture fisheries include: • A study of harvest strategies to achieve ecological, economic, and social sustainability objectives; • An examination of the economic leverages and resources needed to sustain coastal artisanal fishing communities in Africa; • A review of sustainability planning efforts to combat fishing community threats like declining participation, aging infrastructure and fleets, gentrification, reduced resource access, market competition, and environmental stresses; • An analysis of responsible fish consumption through a life-promoting sustainable food system for school-age children. Three of the articles on aquaculture focus on studying consumer preferences related to sustainable aquaculture based on the estimation of how the attributes of aquaculture products (including product labeling and perception) affect consumers' purchase decisions. The other article questions the widely held assumption of sustainable substitutability of plant protein sources (e.g., soymeal) for fishmeal in aquaculture production.