Pubblicazione scientifica

Shifting focus: The impacts of sustainable seafood certification

FILONE TECNOLOGICO	TEMA
economia circolare e sostenibilità	interazione acquacoltura e ambiente sostenibilità dell'ecosistema marino tecnologie e prassi a sostegno di attività turistico ricreative (es. diving)

RIASSUNTO

Alongside government driven management initiatives to achieve sustainable fisheries management, there remains a role for market-based mechanisms to improve fisheries outcomes. Market-based mechanisms are intended to create positive economic incentives that improve the status and management of fisheries. Research to understand consumer demand for certified fish is central but needs to be mirrored by supply side understanding including why fisheries decide to gain or retain certification and the impact of certification on them and other stakeholders involved. We apply semi-structured interviews in seven different Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certified fisheries that operate in (or from) Western Australia with the aim of better understanding fisheries sector participation in certification schemes (the supply side) and the impacts and unintended benefits and costs of certification. We find that any positive economic impacts of certification were only realised in a limited number of MSC fisheries in Western Australia, which may be explained by the fact that only a small proportion of Western Australian state-managed fisheries are sold with the MSC label and ex-vessel or consumer market price premiums are therefore mostly not obtained. Positive impacts of certification in these Western Australian fisheries are more of a social and institutional nature, for example, greater social acceptability and increased efficiency in the governance process respectively. However, opinion is divided on whether the combined non-monetary and monetary benefits outweigh the costs.

DATA

Data di pubblicazione: 20/05/2020

AUTORI

VAN PUTTEN INGRID
LONGO CATHERINE
ARTON ASHLEIGH
WATSON MATT
ANDERSON CHRISTOPHER M
HIMES-CORNELL AMBER
OBREGON CLARA
ROBINSON LUCY
VAN STEVENINCK TATIANA

ENTE DI AFFERENZA

CSIRO OCEANS & ATMOSPHERE HOBART TASMANIA AUSTRALIA
CTR MARINE SOCIOECOLOGY UNIV TASMANIA HOBART TASMANIA AUSTRALIA
MARINE STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL MSC SNOW HILL LONDON UK
MARINE STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL MSC MARINE TERRACE FREMANTLE WA AUSTRALIA
UNIV WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF AQUATIC & FISHERY SCIENCES SEATTLE WA USA
FOOD & AGRICULTURE ORG UNITED NATIONS ROME ITALY
COLLEGE OF SCIENCE HEALTH ENG & EDUCATION HARRY BUTLER INST CTR SUSTAINABLE AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS MURDOCH UNIV MURDOCH AUSTRALIA
CSIRO OCEANS & ATMOSPHERE PERTH WESTERN AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA
OCEANS GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIV WESTERN AUSTRALIA PERTH WESTERN AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA
LEIDEN UNIV SCIENCE BASED BUSINESS LEIDEN NETHERLANDS
UNIV CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE ITALY

RIVISTA

PLoS ONE, 15(5), e0233237

IMPACT FACTOR

2,870

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