Social Sustainability Issues of Cod and Haddock Fisheries in the Northeast Atlantic
Research on the sustainability of capture fisheries has focused more on environmental and economic sustainability than on social sustainability. To assess social sustainability, relevant and important social sustainability issues (SSIs) need to be identified. The objective of this study was to ident...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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2014
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| Online Access: | https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/social-sustainability-issues-of-cod-and-haddock-fisheries-in-the- |
| Summary: | Research on the sustainability of capture fisheries has focused more on environmental and economic sustainability than on social sustainability. To assess social sustainability, relevant and important social sustainability issues (SSIs) need to be identified. The objective of this study was to identify relevant and important SSIs for cod and haddock fisheries in the northeast Atlantic based on two stakeholder surveys. The first survey resulted in the identification of 27 relevant SSIs that were ranked in order of importance in the second survey. Results show that worker safety, product freshness and companies’ salary levels are the most important SSIs. Results on the relevance and importance of SSIs enable the industry and policy-makers to direct improvement efforts towards the more important SSIs. |
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