TY - JOUR
T1 - The effects of COVID-19 restrictions on portuguese marine small-scale fisheries
T2 - A regional analysis
AU - Zejnilović, Leid
AU - Lavado, Susana
AU - Grilo, Catarina
AU - Sá, Rita
AU - Faias, Sérgio
N1 - Funding Information:
L.Z. and S.L. acknowledge support by Funda\u00E7\u00E3o para a Ci\u00EAncia e a Tecnologia (UIDB/00124/2020, UIDP/00124/2020 and Social Sciences DataLab - PINFRA/22209/2016), POR Lisboa and POR Norte (Social Sciences DataLab, PINFRA/ 22209/ 2016), and \u201Cla Caixa\u201D Foundation and BPI bank. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. We thank colleagues at Nova School of Business and Economics, L\u00E9nia Mestrinho, Bruna Riboldi, Eduardo Hidalgo, and Miguel Matos, as well as Filomena Saraiva and other colleagues at Docapesca, for their contributions in the project implementation. We thank the Portuguese Institute for the Sea and Atmosphere for providing us data about advice about the sea conditions close to the fishing ports. We are also grateful to Prof. Luis Catela Nunes for his advice regarding the statistical analysis approach and his review of the results. We wish to express our gratitude to the members of the project advisory board, Carlos Ferreira, F\u00E1bio Mateus, Lu\u00EDs de Sousa, Lu\u00EDs Sucena Neves, Nuno Lopes and Renato Rosa for sharing their valuable expert knowledge.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2024
PY - 2024/7
Y1 - 2024/7
N2 - There is growing evidence of the differential effects the COVID-19 pandemic had on small-scale fisheries across the world, with predominantly decreased landings during the time of restrictions and substantial negative socio-economic impact. We contribute to this evidence with an analysis of a comprehensive dataset of 5 million first sales of seafood transactions by 3715 small-scale fishers catching 351 species in Portugal from 2017 to the end of 2020. The analysis shows that the patterns observed in other countries, overall, apply to Portugal, with a decline in reported catch and number of fishers during the lockdown. However, there were notable regional differences. Most interestingly, two regions with historically very high tourism activity recorded a statistically significant increase in reported average daily catch volume per fishing operator during the lockdown, often for high-value species. We discuss these regional differences and potential explanations, as well as their policy implications.
AB - There is growing evidence of the differential effects the COVID-19 pandemic had on small-scale fisheries across the world, with predominantly decreased landings during the time of restrictions and substantial negative socio-economic impact. We contribute to this evidence with an analysis of a comprehensive dataset of 5 million first sales of seafood transactions by 3715 small-scale fishers catching 351 species in Portugal from 2017 to the end of 2020. The analysis shows that the patterns observed in other countries, overall, apply to Portugal, with a decline in reported catch and number of fishers during the lockdown. However, there were notable regional differences. Most interestingly, two regions with historically very high tourism activity recorded a statistically significant increase in reported average daily catch volume per fishing operator during the lockdown, often for high-value species. We discuss these regional differences and potential explanations, as well as their policy implications.
KW - COVID-19 restrictions
KW - Daily catch of seafood
KW - Regional analysis
KW - Small-scale fisheries
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85192070502&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.marpol.2024.106156
DO - 10.1016/j.marpol.2024.106156
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85192070502
SN - 0308-597X
VL - 165
JO - Marine Policy
JF - Marine Policy
M1 - 106156
ER -
