Reports on preferred sustainable market solutions: Stakeholder´s perspectives

The goals were to facilitate the building of a co-creation and stakeholder platform to engage various value chain stakeholders in participatory manner and interactions with the SUCCESS partners. Through this enable targeted consulting actions (e.g. workshops, focus groups) with relevant actors like the fishermen, aquaculture producers and their associations, and to engage value chain operators driving the market interactions between primary producers, sellers and the consumers, Following is a list of selected sustainable market perspectives from the SUCCESS co-creation work with stakeholders: Different cultural perspectives exist that may motivate stakeholders differently across Europe, i.e. North vs. South European perspectives, and also differences arising from the Common Fishery Policy (CFP) vs. elsewhere in Europe not covered by the CFP. Many policy options must be assessed at the individual case study level (due to heterogeneity). Data collection improvement is considered important (for e.g. labour, capital structure/lack of market oriented and environmental indicators, and more disaggregated data is needed. Technical efficiency is considered important for improving environmentally friendly fishing methods. Imperative to simplify and improve legal frameworks and regulations, e.g. to reduce conflicts between short term and long term issues and overlap of local regional, national, EU terms of reference. Environmental regulation clarity improvement needed, and better information basis required with focus on spatial management considerations, especially in aquaculture. Consider if ecosystem services provided by e.g. carp aquaculture could be promoted as part of Natura and tourism. 7.Labelling for sustainability, origin and quality schemes remains a complicated issue, resulting in label fatigue, consumer segmentation and country differences that can provide negative or positive impacts. Impacts direction relies on informing consumers properly for informed choices, and implementing measures targeting, or supporting Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to provide transparent information for increasing ocean literacy, Such efforts are also considered important at municipality levels, as well as regional and on EU wide level. 8. Producer Organisations and Cooperatives should be promoted Provide incentives and opportunities through EU legislation, e.g. through allocation of user rights, Value chain and market bargain power promotion through measures like business concentration, both via vertical and horizontal integration, Promote initiatives by SMEs on training. 9. The CFP discard ban will require more work on quota allocation modelling to underpin the optimal way forward for the sector. 10.Promote further energy saving technologies and consider a ban on fuel subsidies for the fishing sector. 11. Promote further work on new products and product differentiation measures (like e.g. the Greece and Trapani mussels label, direct-selling and short supply chains etc.).The outcomes from the various stakeholder consultations carried out by the SUCCESS project, and by a final round of focus group meetings were used to prepare this report on preferred sustainable market solutions and an indicative roadmap for implementation of SUCCESS outcomes as perceived by the stakeholders. This includes assessments of impact potential for varying measures and tools developed by the SUCCESS work-packages to present both stakeholder perspectives and the SUCCESS scientific outcomes. This report is delivered as a public summary of the findings from the co-creation work involving stakeholders in the SUCCESS project