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NOAA Fisheries reports on early pandemic impact on fisheries
Posted by Joe Viechnicki | Jan 19, 2021
Long-line caught halibut await unloading in Petersburg. (Angela Denning/KFSK)
A federal agency has put some dollar amounts to the impact from the COVID-19 pandemic on commercial and charter fishing industries nationwide in the first part of last year.
NOAA Fisheries deputy assistant administrator for operations Paul Doremus called the report a snapshot of an industry in transition.
“We’re trying to account in great detail with the data and information in this report on the bearing of COVID-19 on the sector as a whole and provide this in a way that can help businesses and communities understand what has happened, where the losses have been concentrated and to inform long-term recovery and resilient strategies,” Doremus said during a conference call with reporters.