Predictions of the effect of preventive measures when applied by fish farmers.

Discrete choice experiments DCE have been used in many research fields to elicit preferences of decision makers regarding different products and services They involve the creation of hypothetical scenarios trying to mimic real markets which are defined to answer different research questions Thus it is possible to analyze the effect of important attributes over the outcomes of the experiment to quantify tradeoffs between attributes and to evaluate the willingness to pay for improving the quality of a product or service In our case different skeleton anomalies in form and severity will be defined and used Data will be obtained from a large number of companies and consumers within the consortium and through contacts from FEAP and API DCE provide rich data sources which have been widely used in health economics to evaluate preferences for healthcare products and services they allow researchers to obtain after the application of appropriate modelling methodologies such us discrete choice models merging their financial cost and revenues and their organizational consequences risks and controls to implement It will also provide essential inputs for the main economic evaluation techniques costbenefit analysis CBA and costutility analysis notably when coupled with riskcontrol matrix ULGCEPE