{"id":502,"date":"2023-02-17T13:12:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T18:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/striperhub\/?page_id=502"},"modified":"2023-02-23T16:40:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T21:40:56","slug":"consumer-assessments","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/striperhub\/consumer-information\/consumer-assessments\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer Assessments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From August 2021 to November 2022, the StriperHub team conducted six consumer evaluations along the central North Carolina coast and in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill \u201cTriangle\u201d region during professional conferences and public events. The opinions of one seafood businesses\u2019 retail customers were also profiled. Overall, StriperHub surveyed 321 individuals from 38 of the state\u2019s 100 counties to learn seafood consumers\u2019 perceptions of cultivated striped bass to learn the market potential of this commercial species.

We served our survey participants Mariner\u2019s Menu saut\u00e9ed striped bass with garlic-basil butter<\/a> and then asked them to numerically rate the flavor, texture, aroma and appearance of their striped bass according to a hedonic scale where 1 equaled \u201cunacceptable\u201d and 7 equaled \u201cexcellent.\u201d We also asked them to provide commentary on what they liked and disliked about striped bass and to indicate the whitefish species that were most similar to striped bass.<\/p>\n\n\n