Linking social preferences and ocean acidification impacts in mussel aquaculture.

ABSTRACT: Ocean Acidification (OA) has become one of the most studied global stressors in marine science during the last fifteen years. Despite the variety of studies on the biological effects of OA with marine commercial species, estimations of these impacts over consumers' preferences have not been studied in detail, compromising our ability to undertake an assessment of market and economic impacts resulting from OA at local scales. Here, we use a novel and interdisciplinary approach to fill this gap. We experimentally test the impact of OA on commercially relevant physical and nutritional attributes of mussels, and then we use economic discrete choice models to assess the marginal effects of these impacts over consumers' preferences and wellbeing. Results showed that attributes, which were signif

SUBMITTER: Martin VAS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6423318 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature