Ward / Phillips Seafood Ecolabelling

Principles and Practice
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-0139-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 472 Seiten, E-Book

SEAFOOD Ecolabelling Principles and Practice
Edited by Trevor Ward and Bruce Phillips
In recent years there have been some major developments and agreatly increased recognition of the importance of more sustainableand environmentally-friendly fishing and fish-farming methods.Various types of seafood eco-endorsements have been introduced, andthese initiatives have now blossomed into an extensive range oftypes of product endorsement labels and systems.
This volume comprehensively reviews the current eco-endorsementsystems for seafood products, described in four main sections withcontributions by leading experts from around the globe:
* A full description of the background and history ofecolabels, ratings, guides and choice systems
* Seafood evaluation and certification, including issues ofquality, costs and benefits
* Highly significant case studies in the use of ecolabels,including details of programs undertaken with species such asPollock, Baja Red Spiny Lobster, and Patagonian Toothfish
* The future of sustainable seafood
Seafood Ecolabelling is an essential purchase for all thoseinvolved in fisheries and aquaculture management and productcertification and ecolabelling throughout the world. Professionalsincluding fishery scientists and managers, fish farm managers,marine biologists, environmental biologists, conservationbiologists, ecologists, natural resource managers, civil societyand sustainability governance practitioners, and resource andenvironmental economists will find this book to be extremelyvaluable. Professionals involved in the seafood trade, includingthose in production, packaging, reselling and seafood productlabelling, will find a great deal of commercial interest withinthis book. Libraries in all universities and researchestablishments where biological sciences, food science andfisheries are studied and taught should have copies of thisimportant book on their shelves.
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Ward, Trevor

Phillips, Bruce

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Ecolabelling of Seafood: The Basic Concepts.
Trevor J. Ward & Bruce Phillips.
2 The Economics of Ecolabelling.
Cathy A. Roheim.
3 FAO Guidelines for Ecolabelling in Wild Capture Fisheries.
Rolf Willmann, Kevern Cochrane & William Emerson.
4 The Marine Stewardship Council Programme.
Rupert Howes.
5 Aquaculture Certification.
Daniel Lee.
6 GLOBALGAP--Building Consumer Confidence in AquacultureSustainability.
Aldin Hilbrands.
7 Advancing the Global Marketplace for Sustainable Seafood: TheSeafood Choices Alliance.
Michael Boots.
8 Developing an International Standard for the Trade in LiveReef Food Fish.
Geoffrey Muldoon & Peter Scott.
9 Market-Based Mechanisms - Improving Fisheries Management?.
Duncan Leadbitter.
10 Measuring the Success of Seafood Ecolabelling.
Trevor J. Ward.
11 Case Study 1: Toothfish - An MSC-Certified Fishery.
David Agnew.
12 Case Study 2: The Baja California, Mexico, LobsterFishery.
Bruce Phillips, Luis Bourillón & Mario Ramade.
13 Case Study 3: MSC Certification of the Alaska PollockFishery.
Jim Gilmore.
14 The Marine Stewardship Council and Developing Countries.
Stefano Ponte.
15 Benefits of Certification for Small-scale Fisheries.
Meredith Lopuch.
16 New England Aquarium: Supporting Environmentally ResponsibleSeafood Choices.
Heather Tausig, Michael Tlusty, Lydia Bergen, Gregory Stone& Kathleen Szleper.
17 Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch Programme.
Jennifer Dianto Kemmerly.
18 The New Zealand Best Fish Guide.
Barry Weeber & Cath Wallace.
19 Guiding Australian Consumers to Sustainable SeafoodChoices.
Craig Bohm.
20 Towards Sustainable Seafood: The Evolution of a ConservationMovement.
Michael Sutton & Laura Wimpee.
21 Anecdotes and Lessons of a Decade.
Trevor J. Ward & Bruce Phillips

Über Autor(innen)

Trevor Ward, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences,University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Bruce Phillips, Department of Environmental Biology, CurtinUniversity of Technology, Perth, Australia