Original title: Stakeholder perceptions of seafood supply chain resilience and sustainability: an Australian case study
The study asks how people across three Australian seafood supply chains understand resilienceThe ability to keep going or adapt when disruption occurs. and sustainability. A qualitative survey gathered views from 102 stakeholdersPeople or groups involved in, or affected by, an industry., including producers, retailers, and researchers. Many saw their supply chains as both resilient and sustainable, even after major disruptions. They linked this to stable business, rules for managing fisheries, responsible production, and the ability to adapt and share information. But they talked less about the social side of sustainability.
Imagine making dinner when the shop is short of ingredients and prices keep changing. It is hard to keep the meal affordable and available if everyone works alone or refuses to change the plan. In this paper, the dinner ingredients and the people getting them to your kitchen stand for seafood and its supply chain; sharing information and adapting help it cope with disruption. The study also finds that people paid less attention to whether the system supports social wellbeing.
Disruptions can threaten seafood supplies and the livelihoods of people who produce, process, and sell seafood. The study shows which strengths stakeholders rely on—and highlights that social wellbeing gets less attention than environmental and economic concerns.
The study covers three Australian seafood supply chains and reports stakeholder perceptions from a qualitative survey. It does not establish that these perceptions prove the chains are resilient or sustainable, or that the findings apply equally everywhere. The abstract does not specify how the framework performs in practice.
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Stakeholder perceptions of seafood supply chain resilience and sustainability: an Australian case study — Roshni C. Subramaniam, Peggy Schrobback, Melodie Ruwet et al. — Sustainability Science — doi:10.1007/s11625-026-01911-y
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