Association of health involvement and attitudes towards eating fish on farmed and wild fish consumption in Belgium, Norway and Spain

Aquaculture International

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 475-488

  Altintzoglou, Themistoklis ^a   Vanhonacker, Filiep ^b   Verbeke, Wim ^b   Luten, Joop ^a  

^a NOFIMA   (Norway)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Consumers; Farmed fish; Fish consumption; Health involvement; Wild fish

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; FISH; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH IMPACT; PUBLIC ATTITUDE;

BELGIUM; NORWAY; SPAIN;

EID: 79955868929     PISSN: 09676120     EISSN: 1573143X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10499-010-9363-2     Document Type: Article

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