Potential Demand for Organic Marine Fish in Italy

  • Defrancesco E
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Abstract

Italian demand for organic products is rapidly increasing, yet there is currently no supply of certified organic marine-fish. Moreover, in recent years marine fish farm profitability has been reduced because of competition from imported products. A pilot project was carried out in order to: a) define standards for organic marine fish farming; b) evaluate production costs in four farms, experimenting semi-extensive organic fish farming under proposed standards (seabream, Sparus aurato and seabass, Dicentrarchus lobrax); c) estimate the potential demand for certified organic marine fish and consumer willingness to pay in order to figure out the profitability of a product differentiation strategy. This paper shows the econornic results for production costs at the farm level and potential demand. The latter has been estimated using survey-data of 6,877 consumers by rneans of a questionnaire-interview carried out during an experimental organic marine fish promotion sale. Results show that organic marine fish farming could be a good market opportunity for some Italian fish farmers by improving consumer information on organic products, adopting a supply concentration strategy at the farm level and carefully managing semi-extensive-farming set up by proposed regulations.

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Defrancesco, E. (2007). Potential Demand for Organic Marine Fish in Italy. In Organic Food (pp. 125–142). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39582-1_9

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