Consumers’ attitudes to selected fish species in Cambodia

Bc. Barbora Kindlová

Master's thesis

Abstract:

Over the past 40 years, the global aquacultures sector has grown continuously, and the sector is currently an important contributor to global seafood production.Despite the fact, that Cambodia belong among the poorest countries in the world, the Cambodian´s fishery is the fourth most productive in the world.The fish belong among the minimally processed foods and are recognized as a marker of healthy eating because of their nutrient profiles and because they are low-energy density foods. It is fact that aquatic products serve an excellent source of protein, omega – 3 fatty acids, vitamins, selenium, calcium and they are increasingly consumed by humans around the whole world. However, despite the positive health effect of aquatic products, they may accumulate contaminants due to the high contents of fat and proteins, which display harmful effect on human health and these problems are not so known by world population.The main aim of this thesis is to determine attitudes of Cambodia consumers to fish and explore which of them are the most commonly used and how often.Therefore, in relation to the main objective, we specifically concentrate to compare the fish consumption in Cambodia with the amount of toxic heavy metals in fish and evaluate how toxic heavy metals could negatively influence human health.

Keywords

Cambodia, toxic heavy metal, Fish

Jazyk práce: English

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 26. 4. 2019

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Vedúci: Ing. Petra Chaloupková, Ph.D.

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences

Master programme / odbor:
Tropical Agriculture / International Development and Agricultural Economics