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 Dr. Lluís Miret-Pastor Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain |
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| Title: Eco-certificates and eco-labels as a way to advance towards the sustainability of the seas | |
| Abstract: Fishing worldwide is facing growing and diverse environmental problems, one of the main ones being the overexploitation of fishing grounds. In order to face this problem, in recent years, different eco-labels and environmental certificates have emerged with the declared objective of guaranteeing that the fish we consume comes from fisheries with sustainable production methods. In recent years these certificates have had a great growth, partly due to a greater environmental awareness of customers, but also because numerous retailers, wholesalers, restaurant chains, etc. force their suppliers to supply them with fish from certified fisheries. Certification has become a powerful competitive weapon for fisheries and the fishing industry, as well as an important tool on the path to the sustainability of seas and oceans. In any case, eco-labels are not without criticism. In the first place, because they have also become a profitable business and today there is a huge variety of eco-labels and certification standards, even for fish products exclusively, which makes their identification difficult. There are also criticisms of its bureaucracy and its price, criticism of its use as entry barriers to certain markets or doubts about its true environmental effectiveness. In any case, fisheries certification is a growing trend and is expanding to other products such as aquaculture. | |
| Biography: Lluís Miret-Pastor is a Doctor in Business Administration and Management and associate professor at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain), where he is the academic director of tourism studies. Among his lines of research are fisheries policy, aquaculture policy, fisheries diversification, eco-innovation and the economics of natural resources. He is currently Guest Editor of Sustainability Journal with the special issue "Sustainability on Natural Resource Economics". Lluis Miret-Pastor has published numerous articles in academic journals, nineteen of them indexed in JCR journals, among others in journals such as Marine Policy, Sociologia Ruralis, ICES Journal of Marine Science, Aquaculture Reports, Journal of Rural Studies, European Planning Studies, etc. ; He has also published two books and fourteen book chapters in prestigious academic publishers; and he has made numerous presentations in different congresses on innovation, fishing, tourism, economy and environment. Currently he is the Principal Researcher for the project: European fisheries funds as an opportunity for the fisheries sector through diversification financed by the Spanish Ministry of Competitiveness. | |
