French Consumers' Attitudes and Preferences Toward Wild and Farmed Fish
We investigated consumer preferences for wild and farmed fish in an experiment with 276 participants in France. The experiment consisted of three rounds—each round included a survey, sensory trials, and bidding. The survey results indicate consumers (1) perceive wild fish best for safety and health...
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ftbioone:10.1086/689202 2024-06-02T08:11:21+00:00 French Consumers' Attitudes and Preferences Toward Wild and Farmed Fish Kyrre Rickertsen Frode Alfnes Kyrre Rickertsen Frode Alfnes world 2017-10-27 text/HTML https://doi.org/10.1086/689202 en eng MRE Foundation, Inc. doi:10.1086/689202 All rights reserved. https://doi.org/10.1086/689202 Text 2017 ftbioone https://doi.org/10.1086/689202 2024-05-07T00:51:43Z We investigated consumer preferences for wild and farmed fish in an experiment with 276 participants in France. The experiment consisted of three rounds—each round included a survey, sensory trials, and bidding. The survey results indicate consumers (1) perceive wild fish best for safety and health and farmed fish best for environmental sustainability and fish welfare; (2) rank salmon the highest on many attributes; and (3) prefer wild fish originating from the North Atlantic to farmed fish from France and northern Europe, and they rank farmed fish originating from developing countries lowest. In the sensory trials, salmon received the highest hedonic scores, followed by monkfish and cod, while pangasius scored significantly lower. Willingness to pay for salmon was almost as high as for monkfish and higher than for cod, while WTP for pangasius was substantially lower.JEL Codes: C91, D12, Q22. Text North Atlantic BioOne Online Journals Marine Resource Economics 32 1 59 81 |
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We investigated consumer preferences for wild and farmed fish in an experiment with 276 participants in France. The experiment consisted of three rounds—each round included a survey, sensory trials, and bidding. The survey results indicate consumers (1) perceive wild fish best for safety and health and farmed fish best for environmental sustainability and fish welfare; (2) rank salmon the highest on many attributes; and (3) prefer wild fish originating from the North Atlantic to farmed fish from France and northern Europe, and they rank farmed fish originating from developing countries lowest. In the sensory trials, salmon received the highest hedonic scores, followed by monkfish and cod, while pangasius scored significantly lower. Willingness to pay for salmon was almost as high as for monkfish and higher than for cod, while WTP for pangasius was substantially lower.JEL Codes: C91, D12, Q22. |
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