Impact of Covid-19 outbreak on shrimp culture activities in Iran

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Iranian Fisheries Science Research Institute, Agriculture Research Education and Organization, Tehran, Iran

10.22034/aej.2023.416603.3043

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In this research, the effects of the Covid-19 outbreak on the shrimp industry have been investigated. Due to the establishment of quarantine conditions at the time of conducting this research, it was collected through library studies, telephone interviews and online questionnaires, in 4 southern provinces of the country and Golestan province in the north. In November, 2021 link of online questionary was sent through social groups and SMS to all shrimp industry activists, which were available through unions, the Iranian Fisheries Organization, and the National Shrimp Research Institute. According to the request of 15 people from the shrimp industry to complete the questionnaire in person, a hard copy of the questionnaire was provided to them and then uploaded by the user to the online questionnaire in their name. Several phone calls were also made to verify the collected data. The frequency and cumulative percentage of the data related to each of the questionnaire were calculated in the descriptive statistics section, the correlation between the effective factors was determined with the help of the gamma correlation coefficient and data ranking using the Friedman test in the analytical statistics section. Out of the total of 65% in the survey, 23% of hatchery centers, 63% of shrimp farms and 14% of processing centers answered the questions. Based on this, the adverse consequences of the Covid-19 epidemic on production management (shrimp farm, hatchery center and processing center) were declared as 58% very high, 30% high and 13% moderate. 89% of the survey participants stated that the continuation of the Covid-19 pandemic will have negative consequences on their management of production, distribution, sales, processing and operations (43% very much, 46% very much and 11% moderately).

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