Emerging COVID-19 impacts, responses, and lessons for building resilience in the seafood system

Love, David C.; Allison, Edward H.; Asche, Frank; Belton, Ben; Cottrell, Richard S.; Froehlich, Halley E.; Gephart, Jessica A.; Hicks, Christina C.; Little, David C.; Nussbaumer, Elizabeth M.; Silva, Patricia Pinto da; Poulain, Florence; Rubio, Ángel; Stoll, Joshua S.; Tlusty, Michael F.; Thorne‐Lyman, Andrew L.; Troell, Max; Zhang, Wenbo

doi:10.1016/j.gfs.2021.100494

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“…Our research suggests that in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic there was a rapid increase in demand for local and directly sourced seafood in the United States and Canada, at a time when many other segments of the broader food system were disrupted (Garnett et al, 2020;Love et al, 2021). This finding is supported by multiple lines of quantitative and qualitative evidence.…”

Section: Alternative Seafood Network During Systemic Shocksupporting

confidence: 56%

“…To explore this dynamic, we draw on data from the United States and Canada during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 initially impacted seafood trade by altered consumer behavior in China, the largest importer of seafood worldwide (Love et al, 2021). The impacts of COVID-19 subsequently propagated worldwide.…”

Section: Alternative Seafood Network Contribute To Systemic Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In March 2020, for example, the US Farm Bureau reported a 27% increase in grocery store sales compared to the previous year and a 25% decrease in restaurant and other food establishments (U.S. Farm Bureau, 2020). Nearly all segments of the seafood system were impacted in some way by COVID-19 (Sorensen et al, 2020;Love et al, 2021;White et al, 2021). Examples include delayed fishing seasons, outbreaks in processing plants, and depressed prices due to reduced global demand.…”

Section: Alternative Seafood Network Contribute To Systemic Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The global financial crisis of 2007-2008, for example, resulted in an estimated 7% decline in seafood exports worldwide, including a 9% decline in the United States and Canada (US$632 million; Food Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, 2010). A decade later, the seafood system again faces a systemic shock, this time due to the COVID-19 pandemic (Love et al, 2021). Shocks like these are becoming an increasingly common feature of food systems, including those associated with seafood (Cottrell et al, 2019)-a trend that can be expected to continue, given the challenges presented by climate change (Rockstrom et al, 2020) and increased globalization in food systems (Kummu et al, 2020).…”

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Alternative Seafood Networks During COVID-19: Implications for Resilience and Sustainability

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Harrison

Sousa

et al. 2021

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Export-oriented seafood trade faltered during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. In contrast, alternative seafood networks (ASNs) that distribute seafood through local and direct marketing channels were identified as a “bright spot.” In this paper, we draw on multiple lines of quantitative and qualitative evidence to show that ASNs experienced a temporary pandemic “bump” in both the United States and Canada in the wake of supply chain disruptions and government mandated social protections. We use a systemic resilience framework to analyze the factors that enabled ASNs to be resilient during the pandemic as well as challenges. The contrast between ASNs and the broader seafood system during COVID-19 raises important questions about the role that local and regional food systems may play during crises and highlights the need for functional diversity in supply chains.

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Section: Alternative Seafood Network During Systemic Shocksupporting

confidence: 56%

Section: Alternative Seafood Network Contribute To Systemic Resiliencementioning

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Section: Alternative Seafood Network Contribute To Systemic Resiliencementioning

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“…Indonesia merupakan eksportir ikan kerapu yang sebagian besar (>90%) ke Hongkong yang pada Januari 2020 mencapai 165,87 ton, (Suhana 2020). Permintaan sea food di Indonesia cenderung meningkat, meskipun sempat mengalami penurunan akibat pandemi Covid-19, namun permintaan ikan kerapu kembali meningkat mulai pertengahan 2020 (Trana et al 2017, Love et al 2021.…”

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Pengembangan Pendederan Ikan Kerapu melalui Peningkatan Kapasitas Kelompok untuk Penguatan Komoditas Unggulan Kabupaten Administratif Kepulauan Seribu, Jakarta

Effendi¹,

Diatin²,

Budiardi³

et al. 2021

Agrokreatif. J. Ilm. Pengabdi. Kpd. Masy.

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Nursery needs to be developed to strengthen the grouper as a superior commodity for the Seribu Islands Administrative District, Jakarta. This effort is carried out through the development of human resources (HR) and appropriate technology (AT), and hoped that the grouper nursery will become a new business unit in this district, where most of the area is sea. This activity aims to develop HR and AT for grouper nursery through training, piloting, and mentoring. This activity was carried out to 23 community members who are members of the three fish farmer groups. The training materials including the technical and management aspects of the grouper nursery. The piloting and mentoring of grouper nursery were carried out in parallel with the development of AT in the form of the application of garlic-meniran flour, and were carried out at the Sea Farming Center of PKSPL-IPB, Seribu Islands. The piloting includes preparing of cages, stocking of seeds, feeding, water quality and fish health management, sampling, harvesting, and post-harvest handling. The mentoring is carried out by serving participant visits to the center, interviews and meetings. After the training there was an increase in knowledge and skills of the participants, as well as the emergence of motivation to start a grouper nursery business. During the piloting and mentoring, the involvement and enthusiasm of the participants was relatively high and various aspects were discussed. The application of meniran-garlic flour in feeding on grouper nurseries can improve the feed conversion ratio, so that feed costs are more efficient. One of the participants has tried to run humpback grouper fish farming independently, and made a profit after two months of rearing.

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The multifactorial aquaculture‐related COVID‐19 shock in Benin, West Africa: A socio‐economic perspective of mitigating the disruptive impacts on the small‐scale and subsistence producers

Amoussou

Dessouassi

Yong

et al. 2022

Aquaculture Fish & Fisheries

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Aquaculture development in Benin depends heavily on small-scale and subsistence aquaculture producers (SSAPs), who are sustaining production activities. The aquaculture sector is vulnerable to market shocks because of its dependence on inputs and equipment, which are mainly imported from overseas. The recent outbreaks of global aquaculture diseases have also proven the sensitivity of the sector. The vulnerability of SSAPs is expected to increase as a subsequent result of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This is the reason why COVID-19-related difficulties affecting aquaculture production deserve to be evaluated in the country's aquaculture sector.We conducted an online survey to assess the impact of COVID-19 and the resulting restrictive measures on the functioning of SSAPs farms. Data were collected from 98 SSAPs informants spread over the geographic area with high aquaculture production potential in the country. The rate of increase in input prices, linear discriminant and factorial correspondence analyses projected severe constraints in almost all the value chain. The rates of increase in the unit price of inputs increased from 14% to 188%, thus weakening aqua-farmers' purchasing capacity. COVID-19 has led to a drop in the sales turnover of aqua-farms, resulting in staff reductions and unemployment. Difficulties in accessing quality inputs have led to the disruption of fish growth and thus the production cycle. The sale of aquaculture products saw a 20%-30% drop in turnover in many farms. The critical challenges mentioned by both men and women SSAPs are mainly the high cost of fish feed, the rising input and transport costs, and the lack of financial resources. Therefore, short-, medium-, and long-term mitigation measures are suggested and could help to alleviate these difficulties while sustaining the blue revolution already under way. This community of men and women SSAPs should adoptThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Emerging COVID-19 impacts, responses, and lessons for building resilience in the seafood system

Cited by 192 publications

References 40 publications

Alternative Seafood Networks During COVID-19: Implications for Resilience and Sustainability

Alternative Seafood Networks During COVID-19: Implications for Resilience and Sustainability

Pengembangan Pendederan Ikan Kerapu melalui Peningkatan Kapasitas Kelompok untuk Penguatan Komoditas Unggulan Kabupaten Administratif Kepulauan Seribu, Jakarta

The multifactorial aquaculture‐related COVID‐19 shock in Benin, West Africa: A socio‐economic perspective of mitigating the disruptive impacts on the small‐scale and subsistence producers

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