Estimating the Public’s Preferences for Sustainable Aquaculture: A Country Comparison
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Socio-Economic Marine Research Unit (SEMRU), Whitaker Institute, National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG), Galway H91 WN80, Ireland
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Recanati Institute of Marine Studies, University of Haifa, Haifa 31905, Israel
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Marine and Renewable Energy Ireland (MaREI), Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Cork P43 C573, Ireland
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Sustainability 2019, 11(3), 569; https://doi.org/10.3390/su11030569
Received: 11 December 2018 / Revised: 16 January 2019 / Accepted: 18 January 2019 / Published: 22 January 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Seafood Sustainability - Series I)
Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) is an alternative to the monoculture of fin fish species, in which several species are combined in the production process. This can have environmental advantages such as a lower environmental impact through nutrient cycling and natural filters; and can have economic advantages consisting of increased efficiency, product diversification and potential price premiums. In this paper, a choice experiment (CE) was conducted through an online survey in Ireland, the UK, Italy, Israel and Norway, to assess how the public makes decisions on what type of salmon or sea bream to buy based on the attributes of the product. Analysis assessed the Willingness-to-Pay (WTP) for more sustainable produced seafood using a Latent Class multinomial logit modelling approach. In the experiment, an ecolabel was used to distinguish between regularly produced (monoculture) products and sustainably produced (IMTA) products. The general public in each country showed a positive attitude towards the development of such an ecolabel and towards the payment of a price premium for the more sustainably produced salmon or sea bream.
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Keywords:
aquaculture; IMTA; ecolabel; choice experiments; latent class; WTP
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van Osch, S.; Hynes, S.; Freeman, S.; O’Higgins, T. Estimating the Public’s Preferences for Sustainable Aquaculture: A Country Comparison. Sustainability 2019, 11, 569. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11030569
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van Osch S, Hynes S, Freeman S, O’Higgins T. Estimating the Public’s Preferences for Sustainable Aquaculture: A Country Comparison. Sustainability. 2019; 11(3):569. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11030569
Chicago/Turabian Stylevan Osch, Suzanne, Stephen Hynes, Shirra Freeman, and Tim O’Higgins. 2019. "Estimating the Public’s Preferences for Sustainable Aquaculture: A Country Comparison" Sustainability 11, no. 3: 569. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11030569
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