Globalisation in the retail sector is transforming food value chains by driving consolidation in the industry and extending supply chains across the globe. Globalisation enables retailers to benefit from economies of scale and cheaper production in foreign locations. However, food markets themselves are increasingly responding to local consumer preferences. In...
Ecolabels for seafood have now been available for almost ten years. After a slow start, the demand for seafood products that are certified to be sustainable has picked up. Moreover, an increasing number of
fisheries are seeking ecolabeling certification because it has become a de facto prerequisite for market access...
The role of convenience in explaining food attitudes and consumption has been discussed in several recent studies. The purpose of this study is to test a model of the relationship between convenience, attitudes
and fish consumption in Norway. This model has previously been tested in five other European countries (Olsen...
Since MSC certification of the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea pollock fisheries in the U.S., anecdotal evidence suggests that products from these fisheries have benefited in the marketplace relative to products
from the Russian pollock fishery. In particular, a testable hypothesis is that certified U.S. pollock has achieved a...
The rapid growth in aquaculture production over the last three decades has been one of the fruits of globalisation, as tropical countries have exploited their comparative advantage in the production of high value crops like penaeid shrimp. However, aquaculture is heavily concentrated in coastal areas and it has generated important...
The fish market has a long tradition in economic literature. Many authors refer to it when they want to investigate the organisation of exchanges, whether from the point of view of equilibrium or disequilibrium. This market constitutes a kind of economic paradox in the sense that, in many cases, first...
This study extends Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to investigate the motivation to consume fish in a representative survey of Vietnamese individuals. The emperical study is based on using the structural equation approach to test construct valitidy of measures and the emperical fit of theoretical model. The results show that...
This paper provides an overview of ongoing work undertaken in Senegal to understand the implications of fisheries certification on the octopus value-chain. It analyses the opportunities to increase social and
economic benefits for poorer groups and to establish a more gender sensitive approach to eco labelling through the implementation of...
This study examines the economic implications for producers of seafood traceability marketing. There is a trend of increasing number of traceability schemes in the marketplace for reasons of health, sustainability, due diligence, transparency, legal and branding etc. European seafood trading companies are taking the opportunity to use these reasons to...