Impacts of COVID-19 on the Fisheries and Aquaculture Sector in Developing Countries and Ways Forward

G. M. Monirul Alam, Md Nazirul Islam Sarker, Marcel Gatto, Humnath Bhandari and Diego Naziri
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G. M. Monirul Alam: Faculty of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University (BSMRAU), Gazipur 1706, Bangladesh
Md Nazirul Islam Sarker: School of Political Science and Public Administration, Neijiang Normal University, Neijiang 641112, China
Marcel Gatto: International Potato Center (CIP), Hanoi 100000, Vietnam
Humnath Bhandari: International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Dhaka 1213, Bangladesh
Diego Naziri: International Potato Center (CIP), Hanoi 100000, Vietnam

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 3, 1-13

Abstract: Fish is a major source of food and nutritional security for subsistence communities in developing countries, it also has linkages with the economic and supply-chain dimensions of these countries. Burgeoning literature has revealed the adverse impacts of COVID-19 on the fisheries and aquaculture sector, which serves as the major source of income and employment for numerous people globally. This study has employed a systematic literature review of the overall impacts of COVID-19 on the fisheries and aquaculture sector in developing countries using the PRISMA approach. This study reveals that COVID-19 has posed numerous challenges to fish supply chain actors, including a shortage of inputs, a lack of technical assistance, an inability to sell the product, a lack of transportation for the fish supply, export restrictions on fish and fisheries products, and a low fish price. These challenges lead to inadequate production, unanticipated stock retention, and a loss in returns. COVID-19 has also resulted in food insecurity for many small-scale fish growers. Fish farmers are becoming less motivated to raise fish and related products as a result of these cumulative consequences. Because of COVID-19’s different restriction measures, the demand and supply sides of the fish food chain have been disrupted, resulting in reduced livelihoods and economic vulnerability. In order to assist stakeholders to cope with, adapt to, and build resilience to pandemics and other shocks, this study offers policy recommendations to address the COVID-19-induced crisis in the fisheries and aquaculture sector.

Keywords: aquaculture; small-scale fisheries; fish-based industry; fish-food supply chain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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