Robuste sjømatinntekter også under COVID-19 pandemien
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https://hdl.handle.net/10037/25043Date
2022-05-09Type
Journal articleTidsskriftartikkel
Peer reviewed
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Bertheussen, Bernt ArneAbstract
Norway is the world’s second-largest exporter of seafood. The income creates work and activity in local communities along the entire coast. This study examines how vulnerable revenues to the seafood industry have been during the Covid-19 pandemic that has affected most of 2020 and the whole of 2021. In addition to analyzing the revenue development at the aggregate level for fisheries and aquaculture, the study presents sectoral analyzes for salmon, whitefish, pelagic fish, and shellfish with a focus on the most important species in each sector. The findings show that the income streams of the seafood industry have not been “infected” by the pandemic. Instead, they have proven to be very robust even during the pandemic. In the last full pandemic year (2021), Norway exported seafood worth a record NOK 120 billion. The export volumes of the most important species have never been higher. Neither have the prices. The weakening of the krone, which took place at the start of the pandemic, was short-lived and did bit give support to the Norwegian export industry. The study concludes by discussing what distinguishes the pandemic crisis we are now experiencing from traditional resource crises in the seafood industry.