ALASKA LOOKS TO QUANTIFY IMPACT OF PANDEMIC ON SEAFOOD SECTOR

Alaska looks to quantify impact of pandemic on seafood sector. The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI) is looking for help from the broader Alaska seafood industry to help quantify the effects of the pandemic for both seafood harvesters and processors.

Two recently-launched surveys seek to answer key questions such as what amount of resources the industry spent on mitigating the spread of the virus and whether government economic relief programs were available to all sectors of the industry:

Data from the survey will be used to give policy makers and other stakeholders a clear picture of the condition of the industry one year into the pandemic.

The surveys are open through March 18. Each survey takes about 10 minutes to complete.

The surveys are part of ASMI’s ongoing work with the McKinley Research Group to understand and report on the impacts of the pandemic on Alaska’s seafood industry. A series of briefing papers, including market analyses is available alaskaseafood.org/covid-19-impact-reports/.

Individual responses are kept strictly confidential and reported publicly only when aggregated for the industry as a whole.  Data collected will not be shared outside McKinley Research Group (MRG), with any MRG affiliate, or with any seafood entity in which an MRG affiliate has invested.

More details: https://www.alaskaseafood.org/asmi-launches-two-surveys-to-measure-covid-impacts-to-alaska-seafood-industry/