Are media messages to consume more under‐utilized seafood species reliable?

Farmery, Anna K; Putten, Ingrid E. van; Phillipov, Michelle; McIlgorm, Alistair

doi:10.1111/faf.12467

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“…Advice given by fishmongers, retailers, or restaurants can be too subjective, or an inadequate simplification of scientific complexity in fish stocks or social complexity in value chains. Similarly, the invitation to consume less-popular, under-utilized species does not necessarily lead to an overall positive outcome (Farmery et al, 2020). Finally, the consumer cannot also be expected to draw on scientific publications and stock assessment analyses, as these are too complex and inaccessible for most consumers.…”

Section: Consumer-facing Toolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mainstreaming Sustainable Consumption of Seafood Through Enhanced Mandatory Food Labeling

Penca

2020

Front. Mar. Sci.

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To contribute to the debate about sustainable seafood consumption, this article considers the role of mandatory food labeling. The article first flags the rise of a policy paradigm of shared responsibility and policy imperatives at various levels calling for increased integration of the citizen/consumer into public regimes, including in fisheries governance. It then explores the options available to citizen/consumers to engage in the fisheries regime in different stages of the value chain and evaluates their readiness to respond to the expectations. Mandatory food labeling of seafood is introduced as an under-unexplored governance tool, alongside the key enabling technological and policy trends. The rise of transparency and traceability, both as norms and a set of technological capabilities, is highlighted as an opportunity for implementation of mandatory seafood labeling. While recognizing equity challenges and various supplementary actions needed to ensure an effective behavioral and attitudinal shift toward more engaged governance (better education and enforcement and an enabling social setting), the article suggests to further explore mandatory labeling within the governance toolbox. It should be particularly relevant in the context of developed markets with global trade and political influence, and as means of fostering ocean literacy and transparent, participative and deliberative kind of governance.

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Section: Consumer-facing Toolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mainstreaming Sustainable Consumption of Seafood Through Enhanced Mandatory Food Labeling

Penca

2020

Front. Mar. Sci.

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“…The results of relying on media messages focused on consumption of underutilized species are mixed. On the other hand, increasing the availability and diversity of underutilized species that originate from well managed fisheries gives consumers greater options and variety of sustainably harvested species (Farmery, van Putten, Phillipov, & McIlgorm, 2020).…”

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Making seafood accessible to low-income and nutritionally vulnerable populations on the U.S. West Coast

Koehn

Quinn

Otten

et al. 2020

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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Along the U.S. West Coast, sustainable management has rebuilt fish stocks, providing an opportunity to supply nutrient-rich food to adjacent coastal communities where food insecurity and diet-based diseases are common. However, the market has not successfully supplied locally sourced seafood to nutritionally vulnerable people. Rather, a few organizations make this connection on a limited scale. We used a “positive deviant” approach to learn how these organizations’ efforts developed, how they overcame challenges, and what conditions enabled their interventions. We found that organizations in these positive deviant cases provided fish from a wide variety of species and sources, and distributed them through different channels to a diversity of end consumers. A key factor facilitating success was the ability to negotiate a price point that was both profitable and reasonable for organizations supplying nutritionally vulnerable or low-income consumers. Furthermore, securing access to grants overcame initial costs of establishing new supply channels. All cases highlighted the importance of individual champions who encouraged development and cultural connections between the initiative and the nearby community. Organizations overcame key challenges by establishing regulations governing these new channels and either using partnerships or vertically integrating to reduce costs associated with processing and transport. Oftentimes training and education were also critical to instruct workers on how to process unfamiliar fish and to increase consumer awareness of local fish and how to prepare them. These lessons illuminate pathways to improve the contribution of local seafood to the healthy food system.

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“…replace veggie burgers with cell‐based fish burgers). There is no potential for conservation benefit to wild‐caught species without this demand substitution (Farmery et al., 2020).…”

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The long and narrow path for novel cell‐based seafood to reduce fishing pressure for marine ecosystem recovery

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Cell-based seafood is an emerging novel food, with many start-up companies aspiring for ocean conservation benefits through expanded market share that displaces wild-caught seafood. However, the ability for cell-based seafood to achieve this conservation outcome is often oversimplified and will rely on an extensive, and we find somewhat tenuous, chain of events. Here, we outline the technological, behavioural, market and ecological changes that must occur along this pathway, and conclude that fisheries recoveries and collateral ocean benefits are unlikely to result from cell-based seafood technology. In particular, we detail nine necessary steps and argue that failure at any one step could hinder or even eliminate cell-based seafood's conservation effects. We additionally draw comparisons to aquaculture and share broader lessons for other demand-driven product interventions.

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Are media messages to consume more under‐utilized seafood species reliable?

Cited by 17 publications

References 50 publications

Mainstreaming Sustainable Consumption of Seafood Through Enhanced Mandatory Food Labeling

Mainstreaming Sustainable Consumption of Seafood Through Enhanced Mandatory Food Labeling

Making seafood accessible to low-income and nutritionally vulnerable populations on the U.S. West Coast

The long and narrow path for novel cell‐based seafood to reduce fishing pressure for marine ecosystem recovery

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