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Coronavirus: boats at sea but the demand for fish drops by 40%

2020-03-12T11:20:12.586Z


The coronavirus is likely to stop fishing because the supply is there but the demand is missing. The fishing boats to date have all gone overboard and the aquaculture facilities have remained open, but the market is not asking for a drop of over 40%. (HANDLE)


ROME - The coronavirus is likely to stop fishing because the supply is there but the demand is missing. The fishing boats to date have all gone overboard and the aquaculture facilities have remained open, but the market is not asking for a drop of over 40%. Weighing is the decline in requests for catering and tourist reception; Italians, in fact, eat less outside the home and when it comes to domestic consumption, when they buy they are currently oriented towards long-term products. This is the photograph taken for ANSA by Fedagripesca-Confcooperative on the economic impact of Convid-19 on fish consumption region by region.

In Lazio, in Anzio today the boats remained in port and in the next few days the same thing could happen in Fiumicino and Civitavecchia. In Emilia-Romagna, for clams, about 70% destined for catering, there has been a drop of more than 30% in requests, lacking the orders of restaurateurs, especially from Lombardy and Veneto. In Veneto, until a few days ago the problem was mainly related to exports. Blue fish, lupins and clams, also sold across the border, showed a drop of 20%, thanks to often unfair competition from other European producers.

Since yesterday, however, everything has changed, says Fedagripesca. The fishermen's refrigerators are full because a lot of the product remains unsold and already this night some boats from the Chioggiotto returned before the fishing trip, to avoid at least wasting diesel fuel since there is no market. In Campania, the contraction was minimal until a few days ago (-10%), but today there are diving losses with losses of less than 70% -80%. In Liguria, a drop of 40-50% in large-scale distribution, where the least demand from Lombardy, Piedmont, Vento and Emilia-Romagna weighs most.

The drop for the local market destined for domestic consumption or local catering is more contained. Mussel farmers stopped from Puglia to the middle Adriatic for lack of requests. And in several marineries there are those who ask to bring forward the fishing stop.

Source: ansa

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