Thursday
February 14, 2008
4:30-5:30 pm
102 Fishery Sciences
(auditorium)
Social follows talk
Professor, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, University of Rhode Island
The sustainable seafood movement has grown dramatically in the past ten years in its aim to entice the demand side of the market to reform poorly managed fisheries. Through their use of consumer guides to ‘best environmental choices’ in seafood and boycotts of species such as swordfish and Chilean sea bass, environmental groups have attempted to influence consumer choices. Ecolabeling, in particular by the Marine Stewardship Council, has grown significantly. Yet to date little formal analysis has been conducted on its market effectiveness and thus the creation of incentives to reform fisheries management. This presentation will present an initial analysis of the effectiveness of the ecolabeling by applying the theory of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to analyze (a) why major corporations globallyall along the supply chainare supplying sustainable seafood to the market; and (b) why fisheries are undertaking the costs of certification.
Cathy Roheim is a Professor of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics at the University of Rhode Island. Her research focuses on seafood markets and international trade, with a particular focus for the past ten years on determining consumer preferences and market demand for sustainable seafood. One of her most recent publications is a book published by TRAFFIC-North America/WWF (TRAFFIC is the wildlife trade monitoring network of World Wildlife Fund and IUCN-the World Conservation Union), co-authored with Gunnar Knapp and James Anderson, The Great Salmon Run: Competition between Wild and Farmed Salmon (2007).
Cathy has a Ph.D. in resource economics at the University of California - Davis (1990). She is currently President of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET), the international professional association for fisheries economists, and was editor for the journal 'Marine Resource Economics' (1995-1998). Until recently, she was involved with the Stakeholder Advisory Council (StC) of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), serving as co-chair from June 2006 and thus an ex-officio member of the MSC Board of Trustees (2006-2007).
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