French Consumers' Attitudes and Preferences toward Wild and Farmed Fish

Kyrre Rickertsen, Frode Alfnes, Pierre Combris, Géraldine Enderli, Sylvie Issanchou and Jason Shogren

Marine Resource Economics, 2017, vol. 32, issue 1, 59 - 81

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2017
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (11)

Downloads: (external link)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/689202 (application/pdf)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/689202 (text/html)
Access to the online full text or PDF requires a subscription.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucp:mresec:doi:10.1086/689202

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Marine Resource Economics from University of Chicago Press
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Journals Division ().