title: Consumer purchasing behaviour towards fish and seafood products. Patterns and insights from a sample of international studies.
abstract: The present systematic review was performed to assess consumer purchasing behaviour towards fish and seafood products in the wide context of developed countries. Web of Science, Scopus, ScienceDirect and Google Scholar engines were used to search the existing literature and a total of 49 studies were identified for inclusion. These studies investigated consumer purchasing behaviour towards a variety of fish and seafood products, in different countries and by means of different methodological approaches. In particular, the review identifies and discusses the main drivers and barriers of fish consumption as well as consumers' preferences about the most relevant attributes of fish and seafood products providing useful insights for both practitioners and policy makers. Finally, main gaps of the existing literature and possible trajectories for future research are also discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", via Giovanni Amendola, 165/a, 70126 Bari, Italy. Electronic address: domenico.carlucci@uniba.it.
authors.forename: Domenico
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Carlucci
authors.affiliation: School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AR, UK.
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Nocella
authors.affiliation: Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Foggia, Via Napoli, 25, 71100 Foggia, Italy.
authors.forename: Biagia
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: De Devitiis
authors.affiliation: Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Foggia, Via Napoli, 25, 71100 Foggia, Italy.
authors.forename: Rosaria
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Viscecchia
authors.affiliation: Business Economics Group, Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University, Hollandseweg, 1, 6706 KN Wageningen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bimbo
authors.affiliation: Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Foggia, Via Napoli, 25, 71100 Foggia, Italy.
authors.forename: Gianluca
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Nardone
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001290:Attitude; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D005399:Fishes; D005518:Food Preferences; D006801:Humans; D017747:Seafood; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Behaviour; Consumers; Fish; Patterns; Preferences; Seafood