Case Study on the Impact of Pandemic COVID-19 in Aquaculture with its Recommendations

doi:10.34104/ajpab.020.36038

Abstract

In Bangladesh, the lockdown has been started officially from 26th March 2020 which is actually the most important time for harvesting and summer stocking in the pond. The whole aquaculture production system is now hampering due to pandemic COVID-19 and the value chain in this sector is quite vulnerable. I conducted a wireless survey through cell phone collected information from different stakeholders of different agro-ecological zones of Bangladesh to assess the impact of the pandemic situations in the aquaculture sector. Survey results revealed that pandemic COVID-19 has been affected in different areas of the aquaculture sector including reduction of consumption, export order cancellation, reduction in price, delay in summer stocking, lack of technical support, and transport crisis.

Highlights

Bangladesh is endowed with fisheries resources including inland, marine and freshwater resources
All the value chain in aquaculture including hatcheries to processing has been destroyed throughout the world during the pandemic COVID-19
Cancellation of shipment by buyer: Production of Shrimp, as major contributor in national GDP, isfacing great challenges during the pandemic situation of COVID-19.Currently, almost all export and import based business is going slowdown globally and nationwide lockdown situation imposed the processors in shutdown mode and that resulted in oversupply of shrimps with low demand

Summary

Introduction

Bangladesh is endowed with fisheries resources including inland, marine and freshwater resources. The global requirement of fish is expected to increase by 30 percent due to increased number population and improving the living standard of people (FAO 2017; Beveridge et al, 2013). Considering the requirement, aquaculture production will have to increase up to 50-60 percent from the present level by 2030 as production from capture fisheries remain static (Henriksson et al, 2018).

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