Dept of Zoology

Webinar on 'People, COVID-19 and beyond: impacts, adaptation, and innovation among small-scale fisheries'

The COVID-19 pandemic represents a health crisis and an emerging socioeconomic disaster. In small-scale fisheries, impacts have been wide-ranging, on markets and prices, as well as on fishing activities, which have been affected by physical distancing and other restrictions and disruptions in transport.

We are also seeing remarkable innovation in response to this crisis, including use of technology to reach new markets, new ways to preserve products until markets recover, and moving towards supplementary livelihoods.

These opportunities are not feasible to all small-scale fisheries or across gender. Innovation thus will have to take into consideration inclusiveness, equity and social justice as the main principles.

The session will provide overview of the ways in which small-scale fisheries around the world are being impacted. It will further explore the social, environmental, political, and technological innovations and adaptations that small-scale fishers and fish workers in low- and high-income countries are using to cope and recover from the ongoing crisis. Finally, it will discuss opportunities and risks for small-scale fisheries in a post-Covid world.

Join the 90 minute webinar on June 1 at noon (UTC).
For more information visit: bit.ly/35W8eAX