Khan Md Akhtaruzzaman, Hossain Md Emran, Rahman Md Takibur, Dey Madan Mohan
Department of Agricultural Finance and Banking, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh 2202, Bangladesh.
Department of Accounting and Information Systems, Patuakhali Science and Technology University, Patuakhali, Bangladesh.
Aquaculture. 2023 Jan 15;562:738822. doi: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2022.738822. Epub 2022 Sep 14.
The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on the aquaculture and fisheries sector all around the world, with the impact being exacerbated in developing countries. This study is an endeavor to identify consequences of the COVID-19 on fisheries and aquaculture sectors based on primary data collected from Bangladesh as an empirical case study. The data were collected through face-to-face interviews with different supply chain actors while analyzed using descriptive statistics and a problem confrontation index. As results depicted, income and employment across fish farmers, fishers, and traders were severely hurt, with a drastic fall in the market demand, coupled with a severe drop in their fish consumption. As market demand declined, fish farmers must be stocked mature fish for an extra period, and feed costs raised, eventually increasing the overall production cost. Besides, inaccessibility to inputs also made fish production and catch more troublesome. The price of all the major cultured and captured species plunged, leading to a depressing return to farmers, while inputs price underwent a significant increase except for labor and fingerling. However, traders seemed to be the worst sufferers amid striking disruption in fish value chain, which ostracized the preponderance of the traders from the chain. Some of the prime obstacles that constrained the production and trading process were but not limited to higher transportation costs, labor shortage, inability to pay for the wage, and reduced consumer demand across fish farmers, fishers, and traders. Nevertheless, our article further identified a myriad of strategies that the fish farmers, fishers, and traders followed to heal the scar of the fisheries and aquaculture sector with hands-on actions.
新冠疫情给全球水产养殖和渔业部门带来了严重破坏，发展中国家受到的影响更为加剧。本研究旨在以孟加拉国为实证案例，基于收集的一手数据，确定新冠疫情对渔业和水产养殖部门的影响。数据通过与不同供应链参与者进行面对面访谈收集，并使用描述性统计和问题对抗指数进行分析。结果显示，养鱼户、渔民和贸易商的收入和就业受到严重冲击，市场需求急剧下降，鱼类消费量也大幅减少。随着市场需求下降，养鱼户必须将成熟鱼多囤养一段时间，饲料成本上升，最终增加了总体生产成本。此外，无法获得投入物资也使鱼类生产和捕捞更加困难。所有主要养殖和捕捞品种的价格暴跌，导致养殖户回报低迷，而除劳动力和鱼苗外，投入物资价格大幅上涨。然而，在鱼类价值链遭受严重破坏的情况下，贸易商似乎是受影响最严重的群体，这使大多数贸易商被排除在价值链之外。制约生产和贸易过程的一些主要障碍包括但不限于运输成本上升、劳动力短缺、无力支付工资以及养鱼户、渔民和贸易商的消费需求下降。尽管如此，我们的文章进一步确定了养鱼户、渔民和贸易商为切实采取行动修复渔业和水产养殖部门创伤而采取的一系列策略。
