Ainsworth, Gillian B.Pita, PabloBrice Pita, CristinaRoumbedakis, KatinaPierce, Graham J.Longo, CatherineVerutes, GregoryFonseca, TerezaCastelo, DanielaMontero Castaño, CarlosValeiras Mota, JulioRocha Valdés, Francisco JavierGarcía de la Fuente, LauraAcuña Fernández, José LuisFernández Rueda, María del PinoGarazo Fabregat, AlbertoMartín Aristín, AlbertoVillasante Larramendi, Carlos Sebastián2023-03-222023-03-222023Ainsworth, G.B., Pita, P., Pita, C. et al. Identifying sustainability priorities among value chain actors in artisanal common octopus fisheries. Rev Fish Biol Fisheries (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11160-023-09768-50960-3166http://hdl.handle.net/10347/30381The United Nations (UN) Decade of Ocean Science highlights a need to improve the way in which scientific results effectively inform action and policies regarding the ocean. Our research contributes to achieving this goal by identifying practical actions, barriers, stakeholder contributions and resources required to increase the sustainability of activities carried out in the context of artisanal fisheries to meet UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA) Global Action Plan (GAP) Pillar targets. We conducted a novel ‘social value chain analysis’ via a participatory workshop to elicit perspectives of value chain actors and fisheries stakeholders associated with two Spanish artisanal common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) fisheries (western Asturias—Marine Stewardship Council [MSC] certified, and Galicia—non-MSC certified) about their priorities regarding sustainable octopus production and commercializationeng©2023 The Author(s). This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Atribución 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/EcologicalEconomicEthicalInstitutionalOctopus vulgarisSocial valueTechnologicaljournal article10.1007/s11160-023-09768-51573-5184open access