Dolphin-Safe Tuna from California to Thailand: Localisms in Environmental Certification of Global Commodity Networks

Baird, Ian G.; Quastel, Noah

doi:10.1080/00045608.2010.544965

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“…In addition to positive effects on branding, mitigating reputational risk is a related driver for sustainability initiatives like ecolabelling [79] and has been identified as a key driver behind the sustainable seafood movement [80][81][82]. As with brand value, the financial effects of loss of reputation may not be felt specifically in particular product lines, but may be more diffused throughout a retailer business.…”

Section: The Aims Of Csrmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Sustainable Seafood Movement Is a Governance Concert, with the Audience Playing a Key Role

Barclay

Miller

2018

Sustainability

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Private standards, including ecolabels, have been posed as a governance solution for the global fisheries crisis. The conventional logic is that ecolabels meet consumer demand for certified "sustainable" seafood, with "good" players rewarded with price premiums or market share and "bad" players punished by reduced sales. Empirically, however, in the markets where ecolabeling has taken hold, retailers and brands-rather than consumers-are demanding sustainable sourcing, to build and protect their reputation. The aim of this paper is to devise a more accurate logic for understanding the sustainable seafood movement, using a qualitative literature review and reflection on our previous research. We find that replacing the consumer-driven logic with a retailer/brand-driven logic does not go far enough in making research into the sustainable seafood movement more useful. Governance is a "concert" and cannot be adequately explained through individual actor groups. We propose a new logic going beyond consumer-or retailer/brand-driven models, and call on researchers to build on the partial pictures given by studies on prices and willingness-to-pay, investigating more fully the motivations of actors in the sustainable seafood movement, and considering audience beyond the direct consumption of the product in question.

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Section: The Aims Of Csrmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Sustainable Seafood Movement Is a Governance Concert, with the Audience Playing a Key Role

Barclay

Miller

2018

Sustainability

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“…Corporations are motivated to adopt a seafood sustainability policy as part of their corporate social responsibility goals given that: (1) They need to stay competitive within the grocery industry; (2) Buying seafood from sustainable sources ensures long-term access to product; (3) Potential ENGO boycotts make grocery chains wary of risking their reputation and brand [1,30,31]. To this end, supermarkets like the UK's Sainsbury's promote their MSC labelled seafood products and celebrate successes, such as their January 2012 milestone of reaching 100 different MSC labelled products.…”

Section: Assumption Four-corporations and Corporate Social Responsibimentioning

confidence: 99%

Can Consumers Understand Sustainability through Seafood Eco-Labels? A U.S. and UK Case Study

Gutiérrez

Thornton

2014

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Abstract:In the United States and the United Kingdom, over the last decade major retail chains have increasingly publicized their efforts to supply sustainably sourced and eco-labelled seafood. Debate exists over the extent of consumer demand for this product. Seafood eco-labels purportedly resolve the information asymmetry between producer and consumer, allowing consumers who care about sustainability to easily find and purchase these products. This paper discusses the idealized model of seafood eco-labelling in promoting sustainability and presents results of US and UK case studies based on consumer interviews and surveys, which found that consumers had often seen one or more seafood eco-labels. Two well-established eco-labels, dolphin-safe and organic, drove these rates of sustainable seafood awareness. These rates are interpreted in the context of consumer's understanding of sustainable. The Sustainable Seafood Movement's efforts to increase the supply of eco-labelled seafood and elaborate corporate buying policies for sustainable seafood are influencing consumer's recognition and purchase of certified sustainable seafood products. However, eco-labels are a means to communicate messages about sustainable fisheries to consumers, not an end. Efforts to educate consumers about eco-labels should be a component of ocean literacy efforts, which educate the public about the need for sustainable fisheries.

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“…The EII Dolphin Safe label came about in the 1980s when attention was drawn to the practice of setting purse seine nets on dolphins, which, in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean, are known to associate with tuna. In the 1970s and 1980s there were hundreds of thousands of dolphin deaths associated with this fishing practice (Hall and Boyer, 1986;Baird and Quastel, 2011). In response, the environmental NGO EII, launched negative publicity campaigns and create consumer momentum and a global awareness of their Dolphin Safe label.…”

Section: Earth Island Institute Dolphin Safementioning

confidence: 97%

“…However, it has also proven controversial because a return to free school sets contravenes the standards of the Earth Island Institute Dolphin Safe ecolabel. This came about due to controversy in the Eastern Pacific Ocean in the 1990s, which saw a ban on the use of free school sets because of the risk of associated mass dolphin mortality (Francis et al, 1992;Baird and Quastel, 2011). But while the Dolphin Safe ecolabel is now ubiquitous in the industry, with over 450 members including fishing companies and value chain actors (EII, 2007(EII, , 2011, its relevance in parts of the ocean other than the Eastern Pacific and a lack of transparency in decision making and certification is openly questioned (Baird and Quastel, 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

Authority without credibility? Competition and conflict between ecolabels in tuna fisheries

Miller

Bush

2015

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Dolphin-Safe Tuna from California to Thailand: Localisms in Environmental Certification of Global Commodity Networks

Cited by 50 publications

References 70 publications

The Sustainable Seafood Movement Is a Governance Concert, with the Audience Playing a Key Role

The Sustainable Seafood Movement Is a Governance Concert, with the Audience Playing a Key Role

Can Consumers Understand Sustainability through Seafood Eco-Labels? A U.S. and UK Case Study

Authority without credibility? Competition and conflict between ecolabels in tuna fisheries

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