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Indonesia: Coping with COVID

The rapid spread of COVID-19 has introduced multiple challenges in the lives of small-scale fishers in Indonesia. The COVID-19 pandemic that affected Indonesia in early March 2020 has impacted coastal communities, fisher households and fisher women. Information collected by women fisher activists in 12 provinces revealed that the pandemic has dealt a serious blow to fishing activities. It started with significant decreases in demand followed by significant decreases in fish prices. Reports from various provinces found that the price of fish dropped as low as 50 percent. In fact, in some cases no one was buying the fish at all. With this, there was no incentive for fishers to go fishing as the risk was too high. Additionally, since their savings were used for daily consumption, at the end of the day, fishers were left with no capital to go fishing anymore

Title of publication: Yemaya ICSF's Newsletter on Gender and Fisheries
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Issue: 61
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Page range: 12-13
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Author: Dedi Supriadi Adhuri
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Organization: The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
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Year: 2020
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Country/ies: Indonesia
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Type: Newsletter article
Content language: English
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