The Sustainable Aquaculture Group have been working with WorldFish and other partners to document and understand the ways in which the covid-19 pandemic is affecting aquaculture producers and all stakeholders in both local and international seafood value chains.
As part of this work, MSc student Hamia Noronha from India has been researching the impacts of covid-19 on aquaculture value chains in Sub-Saharan Africa. This was carried out in collaboration with WorldFish and found that producers had been affected both through disruptions to supplies and also to markets.
Dave Little collaborated with WorldFish and other partners in the writing of an initial paper on covid-19 impacts which is currently available as a pre-print. The abstract for this is shown below.
WorldFish has been particularly active in documenting covid-19 impacts in different countries and how they affect different stakeholders, and also in the adaptive responses by governments, industry and communities.
Ongoing updates can be found on the WorldFish website