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

Love DC 1 , Allison EH 2 , Asche F 3 , Belton B 2 , Cottrell RS 4 , Froehlich HE 5 Show all authors , Gephart JA 6 , Hicks CC 7 , Little DC 8 , Nussbaumer EM 1 , Pinto da Silva P 9 , Poulain F 10 , Rubio A 11 , Stoll JS 12 , Tlusty MF 13 , Thorne-Lyman AL 1 , Troell M 14 , Zhang W 15

Affiliations 

  • 1 Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21202, USA
  • 2 WorldFish, Bayan Lepas, Pulau Pinang, 11960, Malaysia
  • 3 Food Systems Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611-057, USA
  • 4 National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101, USA
  • 5 Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, USA
  • 6 Department of Environmental Science, American University, Washington DC, 20016, USA
  • 7 Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA14YW, UK
  • 8 Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK94LA, Scotland, UK
  • 9 NOAA Fisheries, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, 166 Water Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, USA
  • 10 Fisheries and Aquaculture Officer, Fisheries and Aquaculture Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy
  • 11 Urner Barry, Toms River, NJ, 08755, USA
  • 12 School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME, 04469, USA
  • 13 School for the Environment, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, 02125, USA
  • 14 Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 104 05, Stockholm, Sweden
  • 15 College of Fisheries and Life Science, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, 201306, China
Glob Food Sec, 2021 Mar;28:100494.
PMID: 34513582 DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2021.100494

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns are creating health and economic crises that threaten food and nutrition security. The seafood sector provides important sources of nutrition and employment, especially in low-income countries, and is highly globalized allowing shocks to propagate. We studied COVID-19-related disruptions, impacts, and responses to the seafood sector from January through May 2020, using a food system resilience 'action cycle' framework as a guide. We find that some supply chains, market segments, companies, small-scale actors and civil society have shown initial signs of greater resilience than others. COVID-19 has also highlighted the vulnerability of certain groups working in- or dependent on the seafood sector. We discuss early coping and adaptive responses combined with lessons from past shocks that could be considered when building resilience in the sector. We end with strategic research needs to support learning from COVID-19 impacts and responses.

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