A choice experiment was employed to assess the influence of various green marine aquaculture policies on motivating farmers to adopt environmentally friendly production practices. Five attributes—g...

Despite being the largest global producer and consumer of aquatic products, China shows a significant difference in consumption between rural and urban areas. This study explores the underlying fac...

In this study, we applied a stochastic frontier model to assess technical efficiency scores and determinants of inefficiency for 96 fish farms in Northern Malawi. A Cobb–Douglas production was empl...

This study focuses on the competitiveness of seafood exports from Bangladesh between 1980 and 2019, specifically focusing on the National Shrimp Policy (NSP), which aims to enhance sustainable and ...

This study investigates the regional demand for shrimp in Norway by employing the linear approximated Almost Ideal Demand System (LA/AIDS) framework. Shrimp consumption has grown significantly glob...

This article investigates how consumer beliefs affect preferences and willingness to pay for wild-caught fish as well as the differences in market price for wild and farmed fish. A total of 245 Ban...

With increasing concerns over the environmental impacts of the production process for seafood, many consumers are willing to pay premiums for eco-labeled seafood to support sustainable fisheries. M...

The non-food segment of the Chinese seaweed market, which is crucial for developing the hydrocolloid industry, relies heavily on the seaweed supply from Chile, Peru, and, to a much lesser extent, I...

Published in Aquaculture Economics & Management (Vol. 28, No. 3, 2024)

We analyze costs, break-even prices, and profits for multiple scales of operation of an off-bottom oyster culture operation, ranging from 27,000 oysters planted on half an acre to 1.28 million oyst...

This study examines the financial performance of six Norwegian salmon farming companies to investigate the benefits of differentiation through organic salmon production. Utilizing panel data from 2...

The purpose of this study is to analyze a possible substitution relationship between farmed gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata) and farmed European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) in Mediterranean mar...

Despite Bangladesh being the world’s fifth-largest aquaculture producer, ensuring quality fish supply and food safety is a major challenge. Illegal practices and the presence of harmful microorgani...

Shrimp is the largest aquaculture species in Bangladesh by value, and it is also the largest species in terms of export value. However, due to the impacts of climate change, the sustainability of s...

Published in Aquaculture Economics & Management (Vol. 28, No. 3, 2024)

Risk is an inherent characteristic of aquaculture production. For a holistic understanding of risk, the risk assessment process must account for both subjective and objective dimensions of risk. Th...

This paper investigates the impact of the rent tax announcement and implementation in Norway in sea-based salmonid aquaculture on stock returns of affected companies. Our sample period ranges from ...

This study assesses and identify major factors of social capital that affect the use of trade credit among shrimp farmers and how these contribute to and affect the profits of households in coastal...

In this study, daily data of farm gate, wholesale and retail prices of barramundi (Lates Calcarifer) and Japanese seaperch (Lateolabrax japonicus), which are the main farmed fish species in Taiwan,...

Research efforts have led to development of aquaculture technologies for 20 marine finfish species with potential for commercialization. Successful commercialization of these species will require i...

Aquaculture has expanded rapidly over the past half century and has surpassed capture fisheries as a source of seafood globally. However, most of the aquaculture production growth has occurred in d...

Seaweed farming in Maine, USA has grown exponentially over the last 5 years. Our work builds upon a prior Maine aquaculture sector benchmarking study to assess changes between the 2017 and 2022 har...

Edwardsiellosis of catfish caused by Edwardsiella ictaluri and Edwardsiella piscicida remains one of the most significant diseases in U.S. catfish aquaculture. Economic losses related to this disea...

This paper adopts the stochastic frontier production function with double heteroskedasticity to analyze technical inefficiency and production risk of intensive white-leg shrimp farming in Ninh Thua...

Eutrophication is a serious problem in many parts of the world, and aquaculture production can contribute to the problem as well as be part of its solution. Nutrient polices in developed countries ...

Infectious diseases are a major threat to Asian shrimp aquaculture, as they proliferate at system level rather than only the individual level. We assess the impact of various forms of cooperation a...

The salmon lice-induced mortality of wild salmon stocks that result from aquaculture production can be considered a nonpoint pollution problem. In Norway, this externality is managed using a traffi...

Norwegian production of salmon is highly export oriented, making access to efficient supply chains an important success criterion for exporters of salmon. The role of the buyers in the supply chain...

According to Chilean legislation, a salmonid concession holder must choose between two mutually exclusive stocking density systems: Stocking Reduction Percentage (SRP) or Stocking by Density. This ...

Trade credit (TC) is a more easily accessible financing source to the most small-scale aquaculture farms with limited access to institutional credit in the developing countries. However, it is ofte...

Extreme climate events challenge the livelihoods of shrimp farmers worldwide. A comprehensive analysis of farmers’ choices of adaptive measures is essential for developing approaches that can lesse...

Published in Aquaculture Economics & Management (Vol. 27, No. 4, 2023)

This study examines the impact of integrated aquaculture-agriculture (IAA) value chain participation dynamics on the welfare of indigenous households using a three-wave household panel dataset from...

The increased demand for aquaculture products is raising concerns over the impact it has on the environment. Fish-based feed contributes to the unsustainability of aquaculture, as it puts pressure ...

Published in Aquaculture Economics & Management (Ahead of Print, 2023)