RT Journal Article
T1 The Covid-19 impacts on the European Union aquaculture sector
A1 Nielsen, Rasmus
A1 Villasante Larramendi, Carlos Sebastián
A1 Fernández Polanco, José Manuel
A1 Guillén, Jordi
A1 Llorente García, Ignacio
A1 Asche, Frank
K1 Covid-19
K1 Economic impacts
K1 Aquaculture
K1 European Union
AB There have been a number of indications of strong negative impacts of Covid-19 and the preventive measures associated with the pandemic for all food sectors. However, there is increasing evidence that the picture is quite nuanced where the Covid related measures are creating challenges for some and opportunities for others. In this paper we investigate the impacts of Covid-19 on the aquaculture sector in the European Union using two approaches; a survey where industry representatives and experts assess the impacts on key economic indicators allowing for positive as well as negative impacts, and recently published aquaculture production data for Denmark and Spain. Our findings show that surveys’ results indicate that, on average, the impact of Covid-19 is negative on the income side, increasing cost and therefore negative with respect to profit. However, in every category the average covers both positive and negative answers suggesting that what was a challenge for some was a window of an opportunity for others. The production data for Denmark and Spain also indicate moderate to no impacts of the Covid-19. The strongest impacts appear on the turbot prices, a species where highly dependent on higher end restaurants. The lower price is a clear indication that there was a significant opportunity cost associated with getting access to other supply chains, particularly as the quantity was also moderately down.
PB Elsevier
SN 0308-597X
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10347/42242
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10347/42242
LA eng
NO Nielsen, R., Villasante, S., Polanco, J. M. F., Guillen, J., Garcia, I. L., & Asche, F. (2023). The Covid-19 impacts on the European Union aquaculture sector. Marine Policy, 147, 105361.
NO The authors thank the collaboration of EU aquaculture producers organizations, and experts from the EWG group 20–12. FA acknowledges funding from the Norwegian Research Council (324685). SV acknowledges the financial support of Xunta de Galicia, Grupos de Referencia Competitiva, under Grant ED431C2019/11. The authors thank Katina Roumbedakis for helping with the figures of the manuscript.
DS Minerva
RD 28 abr 2026