Early effects of COVID‐19 on US fisheries and seafood consumption

White, Easton R.; Froehlich, Halley E.; Gephart, Jessica A.; Cottrell, Richard S.; Branch, Trevor A.; Bejarano, Rahul Agrawal; Baum, Julia K.

doi:10.1111/faf.12525

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“…Less than two weeks later, on March 21, the Canada-US and US-Mexico borders were closed to non-essential travel. Social distancing and other public health measures immediately altered consumer behavior, with the restaurant and food services sector particularly hard hit (White et al, 2021). 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).…”

Section: Alternative Seafood Network Contribute To Systemic Resiliencementioning

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“…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.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…To do this, we used the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) to identify fish and seafood markets (NAICS code 445220) and then used the Local Catch Network Seafood Finder, which lists ASN from across the United States and Canada, to identify the subset of businesses that are ASN. Following White et al (2021), we filtered out businesses that were mislabeled as seafood markets and those with <300 days of foot traffic data since the start of 2019. Data were normalized by dividing the number of daily visits by the number of devices present per the recommendation of SafeGraph.…”

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

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

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“…50% reduction in export has been predicted due to stringent lockdowns during this pandemic, losses incurred is estimated to be INR 4883.24 crores [30,31]. United States of America is the World's top importer of seafood, but currently the market is undergoing major shock; as a result India's trade basket is also destabilized [32,33]. Having international and inter-state trades been halted, food giants closed, local retail markets and grocery stores have emerged as an alternative option for canned and frozen products.…”

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Impact of COVID-19 on Indian Seafood Industry and Potential Measures for Recovery: A Mini-review

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Global seafood sector is going through a massive shock during a global-scale disturbance named “COVID-19 Pandemic”. Restricting national and international trade and traffic was the most needed step to contain the spread of virus; meanwhile it has wreaked havoc on all import-export businesses. Seafood sector, is one of the major pillar behind agricultural export (fisheries sector contributing 1.07% to the Indian agricultural GDP) and blue revolution. But due to uncertainty of the lockdown periods, the Indian seafood sector has crashed, affecting livelihoods of all fishing and related communities, export and supply chain (both domestic and international), demand and consumption etc. The sudden crisis has exposed various shortcomings of the sector and expanded our vision to look ahead of temporary solutions and find long-term sustainability. Unavailability of real-time data from planned surveys are one of the major reasons behind this failure. This article aims to highlight the present scenario of the Indian seafood sector during the pandemic through assessing various news articles, national reports and publications. Further it suggests some recovery steps like building up alternative seafood networks, promoting domestic demand and markets, forming fishing community friendly schemes (medical and insurance), adopting new technologies to prevent and handle any future crisis.

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“…As an extreme form of environmental variability, disturbances (e.g. rare events or catastrophes) in marine systems can include marine heat waves, hurricanes, oil spills, hypoxia, economic shocks and disease outbreaks (Mangel and Tier 1994, Allison et al 2003, Game et al 2008a, Aalto et al 2019, Cottrell et al 2019, White et al 2020a). Given disturbances, the individual reserves within a network can act as an insurance policy for other reserves, e.g.…”

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Catastrophes, connectivity and Allee effects in the design of marine reserve networks

White

Baskett

Hastings

2021

Oikos

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Catastrophic events, like oil spills and hurricanes, occur in many marine systems. One potential role of marine reserves is buffering populations against disturbances, including the potential for disturbance‐driven population collapses under Allee effects. This buffering capacity depends on reserves in a network providing rescue effects, setting up a tradeoff where reserves need to be connected to facilitate rescue, but also distributed in space to prevent simultaneous extinction. We use a set of population models to examine how dispersal ability and the disturbance regime interact to determine the optimal reserve spacing. We incorporate fishing in a spatially‐explicit model to understand the effect of objective choice (e.g. conservation versus fisheries yield) on the optimal reserve spacing. We show that the optimal spacing between reserves increases when accounting for catastrophes with larger spacing needed when Allee effects interact with catastrophes to increase the probability of extinction. We also show that classic tradeoffs between conservation and fishing objectives disappear in the presence of catastrophes. Specifically, we found that at intermediate levels of disturbance, it is optimal to spread out reserves in order to increase both population persistence and to maximize spillover into non‐reserve areas.

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Early effects of COVID‐19 on US fisheries and seafood consumption

Cited by 121 publications

References 26 publications

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

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

Impact of COVID-19 on Indian Seafood Industry and Potential Measures for Recovery: A Mini-review

Catastrophes, connectivity and Allee effects in the design of marine reserve networks

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