COVID-19 lockdowns reveal the resilience of Adriatic Sea fisheries to forced fishing effort reduction

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 1052 - 14
• Main Authors: Coro, Gianpaolo, Tassetti, Anna Nora, Armelloni, Enrico Nicola, Pulcinella, Jacopo, Ferrà, Carmen, Sprovieri, Mario, Trincardi, Fabio, Scarcella, Giuseppe
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 20.01.2022; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 631/114; 631/114/2164; 631/114/2415; Commercial fishing; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; COVID-19 - economics; COVID-19 - epidemiology; COVID-19 - prevention & control; Endangered species; Fisheries - economics; Government regulations; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; Models, Economic; multidisciplinary; Pandemics; Pandemics - economics; Pattern recognition; Predators; Protected species; Quarantine - economics; SARS-CoV-2; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Stock assessment; Threatened species; Adriatic Sea

The COVID-19 pandemic provides a major opportunity to study fishing effort dynamics and to assess the response of the industry to standard and remedial actions. Knowing a fishing fleet’s capacity to compensate for effort reduction (i.e., its resilience) allows differentiating governmental regulation...