Covid-19 e mercado do pescado: impactos iniciais e desafios futuros.

Abstract

The Sars-CoV-2 pandemic, called COVID-19, leads to a turning point in the historical process of changes in agri-food markets, especially with regard to food safety and quality. Although the reflections in this article were made at the beginning of the pandemic, its objective was to highlight the difficulty of the fish market to respond to the resulting impacts, a difficulty that stems from the failure to incorporate parameters inherent to foods with visibility and value, covering characteristics about safety and quality through technical aspects of production, sociocultural aspects on who, where and how the food is produced, ecological aspects of food production, nutrition and health that could result in segmentation. It is based on a literature review focused on structural obstacles in fish market, obstacles that result on more intense pandemic impacts. The situation generated by the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic is pointing to a radicalization of discussions on food that will culminate in the events associated with the Food Systems Feed Summit in 2021 around the principles raised by the SDG2030 Agenda. This article is divided into four parts. In the first part, the main characteristics of the fish market will be presented. In the second, the main profile of product consumption. The third part will deal with the impacts of the coronavirus on the fish market based on recent positioning of some representatives of large-scale fishing and commercialization sector. The fourth will bring the final considerations.