Some Good Reasons for Buying Fish Exclusively From Community-Supported Fisheries: The Case of Yeu Island in France

Alternative pathways to sustainable seafood

“…RSSC can be understood as production systems that better connect fishers and consumers via geographic proximity and other means. Examples of RSSC can be found worldwide (e.g., Pascual-Fernández, Pita, Josupeit, Said, & Rodrigues, 2019, Salladarré, Guillotreau, Debucquet, & Lazuech, 2018 and data from North America show that they are becoming increasingly prevalent in this region (Figure 2). These arrangements take on a diverse range of corporate structures and marketing practices (including operations like community supported fisheries, fishermen's markets, dish-to-plate programs), but a unifying dimension is that they aim to explicitly strengthen the feedback loop between small-scale harvesters and consumers (Bolton, Dubik, Stoll, & Basurto, 2016).…”

Sense of belonging and commitment to a community-supported fishery. The case of Yeu Island, France

“…Community-supported agriculture (CSA) and community-supported fishery (CSF) provide such identity and sense of belonging for farmers and fishers, who cannot be merely reduced to rent seekers (Galt 2015), and also to eaters whose motivations go far beyond the need for organic local food by including political, social, and ethical values (Brinson et al 2011;Stoll et al 2015;Bolton et al 2016;Salladarré et al 2018). By creating a direct relationship between producers and eaters through regular, prearranged deliveries of products, these institutions produce multiple market and nonmarket benefits (Brinson et al 2011;Bolton et al 2016).…”

“…Becoming a member of CSAs/CSFs can rely on three distinct types of relationship with CSAs/CSFs: a basic subscription (involvement), the sharing of values with other members (engagement), and a volunteer support through the time spent for the organization (commitment). However, while members' motivations for involvement in these organizations (through contract subscription for a basket of products) are well-documented in the case of CSAs (Bougherara et al 2009;Peterson et al 2015) and CSFs (Salladarré et al 2018), little is known about the values shared by members of CSFs fueling the engagement with all members related to the sense of belonging to a community. We do consider that involvement and common identity have to be distinguished since the latter might better explain the loyalty of individuals to an institution and increase, in the present case, the sustainability of CSA/ CSF.…”

“…Eaters are prepared to pay higher prices for goods that they sometimes need to pick up at inconvenient times and locations, bear the supply risk with producers by not even choosing the content of the basket, share costs by spending time, efforts and money for the collective market organization, etc. (Peterson et al 2015;Salladarré et al 2018). The nonmarket benefits, including the sense of belonging and ethical values defended by CSA/CSF systems, must offset these negative aspects since there is no strict distinction between the so-called conventional and local food networks, resulting in possible mobility, multiple uses, and trade-offs between channels (Le Velly and Dufeu 2016).…”

“…The relationship between the sociodemographical variables and attitudes of respondents toward CSF characteristics and their sense of belonging are analyzed. A factor analysis carried out in a previous study had revealed, among a large range of motivations to join a CSF, the existence of two principal components: credence attributes (environmentally friendly and local production) and relational aspects (meet people), along with other influential individual variables such as basket characteristics (quality and quantity) (Salladarré et al 2018). In the present study, we show through an ordered probit model with endogenous treatment effects for commitment experience that the reported sense of belonging to CSF is positively influenced by the relational dimension and negatively by the demand for quality, but not significantly by the credence factor.…”