Publications

Malin Jonell, Abigayil Blandon, Julia Maria Charlotte Feine, Sofia Käll. 2025. Broadening the sustainable seafood movement — systemic and enabling approaches to transform blue food. Environmental Research: Food Systems. https://doi.org/10.1088/2976-601x/adfd62

The global appetite for environmentally sustainable and just seafood is expected to grow in coming decades. However, the sustainable seafood movement, including private governance tools like certifications and recommendation lists has yet to transform fisheries and aquaculture on a large scale. At the same time, alternative voluntary governance approaches have taken shape, each aiming to guide production and consumption toward...

Abigayil Blandon, Malin Jonell, Hiroe Ishihara, Aiora Zabala. 2025. What does “sustainable seafood” mean to seafood system actors in Japan and Sweden? Ambio. Pages 1010–1025. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-024-02122-4

“Sustainability” can mean different prioritisations of society, environment and economy to different people. As one of the largest globally traded food commodities, for seafood, these differences could have large implications. The study captures different understandings of “sustainable seafood” among 29 key actors along the seafood supply chain—government, NGOs, industry bodies, retailers and producers—using a novel cross-coun...

Hana Matsubara, Abigayil Blandon, Mary Tomita, Sonia Batten, Sanae Chiba, Tetsuo Fujii, Daisuke Hasegawa, Marloes Kraan, Doug Lipton, L Richard Little, Alondra Sofia Rodriguez Buelna, Mitsutaku Makino. 2025. Shaping the future of marine socio-ecological systems science: combining interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches and knowledge co-creation with diverse stakeholders. ICES Journal of Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsaf059

Following the first symposium held in Brest, France, in 2016, the second Marine Socio-Ecological Systems Symposium (MSEAS) was held in Yokohama, Japan, in 2024, after 4 years of postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2016, interdisciplinary efforts to inform ocean governance using the Social-Ecological System (SES) approach was highlighted as highly necessary. MSEAS 2024 emphasized the combination of interdisciplinary a...

Shun Kageyama, Abigayil Blandon, Robert Blasiak. 2025. Exploring the diverse values local people associate with marine protected areas and the implications for sustainable ocean management. Ocean & Coastal Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2024.107523

Marine protected area (MPA) management requires local people's participation in order to deliver lasting ecological and social benefits . This is crucial to avoid “paper parks” and to encourage self-regulation and enhance social well-being among stakeholders. However, promoting sustained participation by diverse stakeholders is a challenge due to the diversity of ways in which they perceive the benefits of MPAs, and some o...