Project
Strategic Use of Competitiveness towards Consolidating the Economic Sustainability of the European Seafood sector (SUCCESS)
The supply of fish from fisheries is stagnating but supply from Aquaculture is fast increasing. It is, however, questionable if the increasing supply can meet the demand. For Europe is will be essential to stay competitive on the world markets with processed products but also to increase own production from aquaculture. The project will analyse the competitiveness of European companies along the value chain and production systems which may allow the longterm increase in supply from aquaculture.
Background and Objective
SUCCESS is bringing together an integrated team of scientists from all fields of fisheries and aquaculture science with industry partners and key stakeholders to work on solutions which shall improve the competitiveness of the European fisheries and aquaculture sector. The supply-side of seafood markets is limited from both sea fisheries and aquaculture. At the same time demand for seafood products is increasing. In a globalised economy, the conjunction of these two trends should generate high opportunities for any seafood production activity. However, both fisheries and aquaculture companies are facing key challenges, which currently hinder them reaping the full benefits of seafood markets expansion, and even question their sustainability. As a whole, the EU fisheries sector remains at low levels of profitability and sustainability. The SUCCESS project will examine two strategies to improve the competitiveness of the sector: (i) increasing demand for EU seafood products, especially improving the awareness of the advantages of European production (including sustainability requirements and adjustment to market evolution); and (ii) cost reduction in certain production segments. For both strategies development on world markets as well as consumer preferences and awareness will be analyzed. Additionally, SUCCESS will explore the different sectors along the value chain (from fisheries and aquaculture producers via processing companies, wholesalers, retailers to direct marketing to mobile fishmongers and restaurants) and their potential for improvements in competitiveness. These analyses also include long term predictions about the viability of certain production systems and will be considered in specific case studies on for example mussel production, shrimp fisheries, whitefish, traditional pond aquaculture and new aquaculture production systems.
Target Group
Policy makers, Associations, Scientific Community and Public
Results
Katrin Zander & Yvonne Feucht (2017): Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Sustainable Seafood Made in Europe
Journal of International Food & Agribusiness Marketing, DOI:10.1080/08974438.2017.1413611Published online: 22 Dec 2017.
https://doi.org/10.1080/08974438.2017.1413611
Future Developments in German Fish Market – Integration of Market Expert Knowledge into a Modelling System, 2018
Laura Angulo, Petra Salamon, Martin Banse, Ralf Döring, Matthias Keller, and Myrna van Leeuwen
International Journal on Food System Dynamics 9 (1), 2018, 67-78
http://www.success-h2020.eu/outputs/deliverables/
Links and Downloads
Fish: From European origin, sustainably produced - What do consumers want?
Thünen-Contact
Involved Thünen-Partners
- Banse, MartinMA Institute of Market Analysis
- Behrens, GesineSF Institute of Sea Fisheries
- Feucht, YvonneMA Institute of Market Analysis
- González-Mellado, Aida AraceliMA Institute of Market Analysis
- Goti, LeyreSF Institute of Sea Fisheries
- Lasner, TobiasFI Institute of Fisheries Ecology
- Salamon, PetraMA Institute of Market Analysis
- Simons, SarahSF Institute of Sea Fisheries
- Zander, KatrinMA Institute of Market Analysis
Involved external Thünen-Partners
- Institut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer (IFREMER)
(Brest, LHoumeau, Issy-les-Moulineaux, Nantes, Frankreich) - Wageningen University & Research (WUR)
(Wageningen, Niederlande) -
Universidad de Cantabria
(Cantabria, Spanien) - Universite de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO)
(Brest, Frankreich) - University of Iceland
(Reykjavik, Island) -
Nisea Societa Cooperativa
(Salerno, Italien) - MarkMar ehf (MM) Iceland
(Reykjavik, Island) -
Alexander Technological Education Institute of Thessaloniki (ATEITH)
(Thessaloniki, Griechenland) -
National Marine Fisheries Research Institute
(Gdynia, Polen) -
FISHOR Consulting LTD
(Southsea, Großbritannien (inkl. Nordirland)) -
Universita degli Studi di Palermo
(Palermo, Italien) - Iceland Seafood International (ISI)
(Reykjavik, Island) -
Pêcheurs de Manche et Atlantique (PMA)
(Brest, Quimper, Frankreich) - DUCAMAR (DUC)
(Bilbao, Spanien) -
Rodecan S.L.
(Cantabria, Spanien) -
FRIGORIFICOS ORTIZ SA
(Ortiz, Spanien) - KILIC DENIZ URUNLERI URETIMI IHRACAT ITHALAT VE TICARET AS (KILIC), KLC
(Deniz, Bodrum Mugla, Türkei) -
Fish-Pass
(Laillé, Frankreich) - WEMAKE SARL
(Paris, Frankreich) -
FUNDACION CENTRO TECNOLOGICO ACUICULTURA DE ANDALUCIA (CTAQUA)
(EL PUERTO DE SANTA MARIA CADIZ, Spanien) -
ASOCIACION DE MAYORISTAS DE PESCADOS DEL PRINCIPADO DE ASTURIAS (AMPPA)
(CAYÉS - LLANERA, Spanien) - Bundesverband der Deutschen Fischindustrie und des Fischgroßhandels e.V. (BVFisch)
(Hamburg, Deutschland) - Seafish
(Edingburgh, Großbritannien (inkl. Nordirland)) -
AgroParisTech
(Paris, Frankreich) - Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE)
(Helsinki, Mikkeli, Jokioinen, Vanda, Finnland)
Duration
4.2015 - 3.2018
More Information
Funding program: EU – Horizon 2020 – Societal Challenge "Food Security, Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry, Marine, Maritime and Inland Water Research and the Bioeconomy"
Project status:
finished
Publications
- 0
Lasner T, Gimpel A (2024) Aquaculture as a dysfunctional system of action; Why does fish farming stagnate in Germany? Mar Policy 170:106405, DOI:10.1016/j.marpol.2024.106405
- 1
Lasner T, Mytlewski A, Nourry M, Rakowski M, Oberle M (2020) Carp land: Economics of fish farms and the impact of region-marketing in the Aischgrund (DEU) and Barycz Valley (POL). Aquaculture 519:734731, DOI:10.1016/j.aquaculture.2019.734731
