Has the pandemic (COVID-19) affected the fishery sector in regional scale? A case study on the fishery sector in Hatay province from Turkey

Authors : Aydın DEMİRCİ, Emrah ŞİMŞEK, Mehmet Fatih CAN, Özkan AKAR, Sevil DEMİRCİ

Pages : 13-17

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Publication Date : 2020-06-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Many sectors in all around the world including fisheries have been affected from COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this study was to evaluate the early effects of the pandemic insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(COVID-19); on the fishery sector that have been conducting in regional scale considering the fishery sector in Hatay province from Turkey. A series of interviews were accomplished with the peoples/firms/enterprises belonging stakeholders insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(fishermen, retailer, wholesaler and exporters); to question the fishing effort and trade statistics covering the first quarter of 2019 and 2020. The most negative impact of the pandemic in terms of trade insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(in quantity, kg); was on the exporter with 65% decrease followed by wholesalers insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(35%);, retailers insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(17% for fishing products and 14% aquaculture products);. It was concluded that ERP insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(Enterprise Resource Planning); system should be constructed by the government to cope with the problems resulting from pandemics in the fisheries sectors. In this sense, within a decentralization aspect, local cooperatives would play an important role in setting a sector-oriented ERP.
Keywords : COVID 19, Hatay, Fisheries, ERP Enterprise Resource Planning,

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