David C. Love, Lisa M. Weltzien, Andrew L. Thorne-Lyman, Natalie S. Armstrong, Elizabeth Chatpar, Marisa Koontz, Dahiany Zayas-Toro, Lionel Dabbadie, Jonathan Lansley, Felix Marttin, Stefania Vannuccini, Elizabeth M. Nussbaumer, Florence Poulain
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AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic created an unprecedented shock to capture fisheries and aquaculture sectors. This scoping review of 670 articles explored the spatial, temporal, and thematic coverage of this event. The search period was January 1, 2020 to February 7, 2022. Articles were mainly peer-reviewed journals (88%) with the remainder from the gray literature (12%). Studies were performed at the global (21%), multi-country (11%), national (45%), and sub-national (23%) levels. Most studies involved primary or secondary data collection (71%) and the remainder were either review articles (17%) or commentaries (12%). Among the studies using primary and secondary data, nearly half (49%) were performed in the first five months of the pandemic (March to July 2020), and 84% within the first year of the pandemic (March 2020–February 2021). There were many studies in South and Southeast Asia, Southern Europe, China, and the United States, and fewer studies in other regions. The pandemic created challenges and opportunities, with heterogeneity in impacts among industrial and small-scale sectors, production methods, geographies, value chains, and by gender. Cumulative impacts from climate change and conflicts contributed to pandemic-related hardships. Increased unemployment and inflation led to rising food insecurity for small-scale producers, fishworkers, and low-income households. Aquatic food intake was more severely affected than other food groups during lockdowns, and it decreased more in low- and middle-income countries than in high-income countries. Responses were diverse, reflecting the capacity and resources of a country, but in general there was unprecedented public support to sustain the private sector (i.e., income support, tax relief, subsidies). As this study focused mainly on the first year of the pandemic, future work is needed to identify which groups exited the pandemic stronger or weaker, what factors enabled some populations to bounce-back, how the crisis affected value chains, and the effectiveness of interventions.Keywords: AquaculturefisheriesCOVID-19livelihoodresiliencesmall-scale AcknowledgmentsWe would like to thank Claire Twose, Johns Hopkins Welch Medical Library, for assisting with the literature review search. We thank Jamie Harding and Mike Milli, Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future for assistance in making GIS maps and food systems framework figures, respectively, and Shawn McKenzie at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future for reviewing the work.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Data availability statementA bibliography of all references in the literature review and writing of this literature review is available as a Supplement File.Additional informationFundingThis work was funded by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, and the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation.
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Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture provides an important forum for the publication of up-to-date reviews covering a broad range of subject areas including management, aquaculture, taxonomy, behavior, stock identification, genetics, nutrition, and physiology. Issues concerning finfish and aquatic invertebrates prized for their economic or recreational importance, their value as indicators of environmental health, or their natural beauty are addressed. An important resource that keeps you apprised of the latest changes in the field, each issue of Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture presents useful information to fisheries and aquaculture scientists in academia, state and federal natural resources agencies, and the private sector.