February 22, 2021 — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is partnering with the University of Florida to launch a phone survey to measure the impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on the region’s commercial and for-hire fishing industry.
The project aims to specifically measure economic impacts on individual businesses over the 2020 calendar year, said NOAA.
The study is a follow-up to a survey conducted in summer 2020 that measured the impacts of the first half of the year.
According to that year’s survey, the regional fishing industry suffered broad declines.
The results of that survey can be found here.