Ethics and credibility of organic salmon regulation

Abstract

The objective of this report is to establish how important standardisations of regulations is for the credibility of organic fish products, from the viewpoint of consumers, producers, animal welfare groups, and environmentalists. Establish what constitutes ethical (or acceptable) regulations of organic fish farming, and in particular of organic salmon farming from a viewpoint of consumers, animal welfare groups and environmentalists in Norway. The views that are presented here are based on interviews and focus groups we conducted on the respective groups