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First Assessment of the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Global Marine Recreational Fisheries
This work is the result of an international research effort to determine the main impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on marine recreational fishing. Changes were assessed on (1) access to fishing, derived from lockdowns and other mobility restrictions; (2) ecosystems, because of alterations in fishing intensity and human presence; (3) the blue economy, derived from alterations in the investments and expenses of the fishers; and (4) society, in relation to variations in fishers’ health and well-being. For this, a consultation with experts from 16 countries was carried out, as well as an international online survey aimed at recreational fishers, that included specific questions designed to capture fishers’ heterogeneity in relation to behavior, skills and know-how, and vital involvement. Fishers’ participation in the online survey (5,998 recreational fishers in 15 countries) was promoted through a marketing campaign. The sensitivity of the fishers’ clustering procedure, based on the captured heterogeneity, was evaluated by SIMPER analysis and by generalized linear models. Results from the expert consultation highlighted a worldwide reduction in marine recreational fishing activity. Lower human-driven pressures are expected to generate some benefits for marine ecosystems. However, experts also identified high negative impacts on the blue economy, as well as on fisher health and well-being because of the loss of recreational fishing opportunities. Most (98%) of the fishers who participated in the online survey were identified as advanced, showing a much higher degree of commitment to recreational fishing than basic fishers (2%). Advanced fishers were, in general, more pessimistic about the impacts of COVID-19, reporting higher reductions in physical activity and fish consumption, as well as poorer quality of night rest, foul mood, and raised more concerns about their health status. Controlled and safe access to marine recreational fisheries during pandemics would provide benefits to the health and well-being of people and reduce negative socioeconomic impacts, especially for vulnerable social groups
First Assessment of the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Global Marine Recreational Fisheries
This work is the result of an international research effort to determine the main impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on marine recreational fishing. Changes were assessed on (1) access to fishing, derived from lockdowns and other mobility restrictions; (2) ecosystems, because of alterations in fishing intensity and human presence; (3) the blue economy, derived from alterations in the investments and expenses of the fishers; and (4) society, in relation to variations in fishers? health and well-being. For this, a consultation with experts from 16 countries was carried out, as well as an international online survey aimed at recreational fishers, that included specific questions designed to capture fishers? heterogeneity in relation to behavior, skills and know-how, and vital involvement. Fishers? participation in the online survey (5,998 recreational fishers in 15 countries) was promoted through a marketing campaign. The sensitivity of the fishers? clustering procedure, based on the captured heterogeneity, was evaluated by SIMPER analysis and by generalized linear models. Results from the expert consultation highlighted a worldwide reduction in marine recreational fishing activity. Lower human-driven pressures are expected to generate some benefits for marine ecosystems. However, experts also identified high negative impacts on the blue economy, as well as on fisher health and well-being because of the loss of recreational fishing opportunities. Most (98%) of the fishers who participated in the online survey were identified as advanced, showing a much higher degree of commitment to recreational fishing than basic fishers (2%). Advanced fishers were, in general, more pessimistic about the impacts of COVID-19, reporting higher reductions in physical activity and fish consumption, as well as poorer quality of night rest, foul mood, and raised more concerns about their health status. Controlled and safe access to marine recreational fisheries during pandemics would provide benefits to the health and well-being of people and reduce negative socioeconomic impacts, especially for vulnerable social groups.Fil: Pita, Pablo. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela; EspañaFil: Ainsworth, Gillian B.. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela; EspañaFil: Alba, Bernardino. Alianza de Pesca Española Recreativa Responsable; EspañaFil: Anderson, AntĂ´nio B.. Universidade Federal do EspĂrito Santo; BrasilFil: Antelo, Manel. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela; EspañaFil: AlĂłs, Josep. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientĂficas. Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados; EspañaFil: Artetxe, Iñaki. No especifĂca;Fil: Baudrier, JĂ©rĂ´me. Institut Français de Recherche Pour l’Exploitation de la Mer; FranciaFil: Castro, JosĂ© J.. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; EspañaFil: Chicharro, BelĂ©n. No especifĂca;Fil: Erzini, Karim. Universidad de Algarve; PortugalFil: Ferter, Keno. No especifĂca;Fil: Freitas, Mafalda. No especifĂca;Fil: GarcĂa-de-la-Fuente, Laura. Universidad de Oviedo; EspañaFil: GarcĂa Charton, JosĂ© A.. Universidad de Murcia; EspañaFil: GimĂ©nez Casalduero, MarĂa. Universidad de Murcia; EspañaFil: Grau, Antoni M.. No especifĂca;Fil: Diogo, Hugo. Universidade Dos Açores; Portugal. Direção de Serviços de Recursos; PortugalFil: Gordoa, Ana. No especifĂca;Fil: Henriques, Filipe. Universidad de Algarve; Portugal. Universidad de Coimbra; PortugalFil: Hyder, Kieran. University of East Anglia; Reino UnidoFil: JimĂ©nez Alvarado, David. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; EspañaFil: Karachle, Paraskevi K.. No especifĂca;Fil: Lloret, Josep. Universidad de Girona; EspañaFil: Laporta, Martin. No especifĂca;Fil: Lejk, Adam M.. No especifĂca;Fil: Dedeu, Arnau L.. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientĂficas. Instituto de Ciencias del Mar; EspañaFil: Sosa, MartĂn Pablo. No especifĂca;Fil: MartĂnez, Lllibori. No especifĂca;Fil: Mira, Antoni M.. No especifĂca;Fil: Morales Nin, Beatriz. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientĂficas. Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados; EspañaFil: Mugerza, Estanis. No especifĂca;Fil: Olesen, Hans J.. Technical University of Denmark; DinamarcaFil: Papadopoulos, Anastasios. No especifĂca;Fil: Pontes, JoĂŁo. Universidad de Algarve; PortugalFil: Pascual Fernández, JosĂ© J.. Universidad de La Laguna; EspañaFil: Purroy, Ariadna. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientĂficas. Instituto de Ciencias del Mar; EspañaFil: Ramires, Milena. Santa CecĂlia University; BrasilFil: Rangel, Mafalda. Universidad de Algarve; PortugalFil: Reis Filho, JosĂ© Amorim. Universidade Federal do Pará; BrasilFil: Sánchez Lizaso, Jose L.. Universidad de Alicante; EspañaFil: Sandoval, Virginia. Universidad de Murcia; EspañaFil: Sbragaglia, Valerio. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientĂficas. Instituto de Ciencias del Mar; EspañaFil: Silva, Luis. No especifĂca;Fil: Skov, Christian. Technical University of Denmark; DinamarcaFil: Sola, Iván Daniel. Universidad de Alicante; España. Universidad de Playa Ancha; ChileFil: Strehlow, Harry V.. No especifĂca;Fil: Torres, MarĂa A.. No especifĂca;Fil: Ustups, Didzis. No especifĂca;Fil: van der Hammen, Tessa. No especifĂca;Fil: Veiga, Pedro. Universidad de Algarve; PortugalFil: Venerus, Leonardo Ariel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas. Centro CientĂfico TecnolĂłgico Conicet - Centro Nacional PatagĂłnico. Centro para el Estudio de Sistemas Marinos; ArgentinaFil: Verleye, Thomas. No especifĂca;Fil: Villasante, Sebastián. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela; EspañaFil: Weltersbach, Marc Simon. No especifĂca;Fil: Zarauz, LucĂa. No especifĂca
Primeira avaliação dos impactos da pandemia COVID-19 sobre pesca recreativa marinha global
In late 2019, an outbreak caused by a novel coronavirus started in China (Graham and Baric, 2020; Hu et al., 2020; Maxmen, 2021). A global pandemic was declared in March 2020, as COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus (World Health Organization, 2020b), escalated outside China (World Health Organization, 2020a). In mid-2021, when vaccination campaigns began to show positive effects on the control of the disease
in several countries (Kaur and Gupta, 2020), the COVID-19 pandemic caused millions of deaths and hundreds of millions of infections (Dong et al., 2020).
To fight the pandemic, governments reacted with measures designed to contain the spread of the virus, especially through measures aimed to reduce social interactions, including lockdowns (Wilder-Smith and Freedman, 2020), travel restrictions (Chinazzi et al., 2020), and limiting people’s access to non-essential activities (Storr et al., 2021). Humanity suffered a notable impact as a result of the pandemic, including
losses of jobs and an abrupt disruption in global demand of goods and services (Barua, 2020; McKibbin and Fernando, 2020; Nicola et al., 2020). The pandemic further degraded the quality of life of the most vulnerable people, particularly those with mental health problems (Brooks et al., 2020), victims of domestic violence (Usher et al., 2020), children (Singh et al., 2020), or indigenous populations (Lane, 2020). As a result, an increase in economic inequality and worldwide poverty is expected, especially in developing countries (World Bank, 2020), and a peak in the suicide rate (Kawohl and Nordt, 2020).
On the other hand, global reduction of human activities has had some positive effects on the global environment, especially for air and water quality (Rutz et al., 2020), and noise reduction (Zambrano-Monserrate et al., 2020). Marine ecosystems for example experienced less impacts derived from commercial fishing due to disruptions in large markets such as the United States (White et al., 2021a) or the European Union (Prellezo and Carvahlo, 2020; Coll et al., 2021).info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio