Kundu Sudip Kumar, Santhanam Harini
National Institute of Advanced Studies, IISc Campus, Bengaluru 560012, India.
Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka 576104, India.
Curr Res Environ Sustain. 2021;3:100086. doi: 10.1016/j.crsust.2021.100086. Epub 2021 Aug 26.
Monitoring frameworks under a non-disaster scenario can be helpful to identify the various socio-technical constraints of local and regional origin which influence the economics and resources management of marine fisheries. However, local-scale manifestations of regional/global changes due to the rapid onset of a disaster scenario may lead to unprecedented distortion of the market demand-supply value chains for the fisheries sector at shorter temporal scales. The global pandemic of COronaVIrus Disease (COVID-19) provided a unique short, temporal window to study the evolution of socio-economic challenges to sustainable fishing in the Bay of Bengal (BoB), India. The present study provides a detailed multi-source assessment of the factors that lead to massive complications of market disruption beginning with a public curfew on 22nd March 2020, followed by a nationwide complete lockdown of 54 days beginning from 25th March 2020, indicating an "all-pain no-gain" scenario for the fishers. Aggravating factors as a cessation of food services, and the restriction of exports of perishable commodities indicated negative spin-offs for allied activities sectors such as food processing due to low or negligible demand. The present investigation also indicated that as part of rehabilitation, policies related to overfishing are necessary to promote sustainable fishing practices in the BoB region in a post-pandemic period. New policy frameworks must consider the community-centric factors which facilitated the alleviation of the impacts of anthropogenic activities related to fishing and the slow restoration of the demand-supply chain, with long-term benefits for natural resources sustenance and to aid marine conservation efforts.
非灾害情景下的监测框架有助于识别源自当地和区域的各种社会技术制约因素，这些因素会影响海洋渔业的经济和资源管理。然而，灾害情景迅速出现导致的区域/全球变化在地方层面的表现，可能会在较短时间尺度上使渔业部门的市场供需价值链出现前所未有的扭曲。新型冠状病毒肺炎（COVID-19）全球大流行提供了一个独特的短期时间窗口，用于研究印度孟加拉湾（BoB）可持续渔业面临的社会经济挑战的演变。本研究对一系列因素进行了详细的多源评估，这些因素导致了市场混乱的大规模并发症，始于2020年3月22日的公共宵禁，随后是从2020年3月25日开始的为期54天的全国性全面封锁，这对渔民来说是一种“有百害而无一利”的情况。加剧因素包括食品服务的停止以及易腐商品出口的限制，这表明由于需求低迷或可忽略不计，食品加工等相关活动部门产生了负面连锁反应。本调查还表明，作为恢复工作的一部分，与过度捕捞相关的政策对于在疫情后时期促进BoB地区的可持续捕捞做法是必要的。新的政策框架必须考虑以社区为中心的因素，这些因素有助于减轻与捕捞相关的人为活动的影响以及供需链的缓慢恢复，对自然资源的养护和海洋保护工作具有长期益处。
