Abstract
The incidence of the Covid-19 pandemic indirectly affects the decline in the activity of the processing industry and fish consumption by the community. In the short term, there is also a decline in fish prices. This study examines whether the decline in economic activity in the fisheries sector causes changes in the performance of small-scale fisheries, both before and during the Covid-19 pandemic in Tolitoli Regency, Central Sulawesi Province. The target of the research object is fishers who use trolling lines, handline, and beach seine. The analytical method used is Exponential Comparison Method. The results showed that capture fisheries belonging to SSF, which had high performance before covid-19, were fishing gear, and the lowest performance was Surrounding net. On the other hand, the surrounding net has a higher performance during the pandemic than the other three fishing gears, and the lowest is Trolling lines. However, there has been a significant decline in prices and market affordability, the economic contribution of small-scale fishing businesses from before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. For this reason, a policy to open up an export-oriented fish catch market and a wider market reach is required.
Highlights
Since the coronavirus outbreak in early 2020 in Indonesia, it has had a significant adverse impact on the increasing incidence of sick people, the number of deaths, and the limitation of all activities of daily life
Based on the fisheries regulations of the Republic of Indonesia, Small Scale Fisheries (SSF) are defined as people whose livelihood is fishing using traditional tools to meet the needs of daily life using fishing vessels with a maximum size of 5 gross tons (GT)
Based on the criteria and identification of types of fishing businesses in Tolitoli Regency, Central Sulawesi Province, four types of fishing gear classified as small-scale fishing (SSF) were obtained, namely Trolling lines, Hand lines, Surrounding nets, and Set gill nets
Summary
Since the coronavirus outbreak (covid-19) in early 2020 in Indonesia, it has had a significant adverse impact on the increasing incidence of sick people, the number of deaths, and the limitation of all activities of daily life. The Indonesian government issued a policy of modifying the regional quarantine to become a large-scale social distancing that is localized according to the severity of each province, district, or city to cope with the spread of COVID19 and its impacts [1]. This policy is based on Law Number 6 of 2018 concerning Health Quarantine, whose implementation of these regulations is Government Regulation Number 21 of 2020 concerning Large-Scale Social Distancing and Presidential Decree on Health Emergencies [2]. The result of implementing the policies of the central and local governments is a decline in economic activity in both the production and distribution systems of goods. Worries about the impact of the pandemic because fishery activities such as fish landing activities in port areas and processing industries can pose a risk of virus transmission [3]
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