Fishing Safety Entering 2022: COVID-19 and Industry Stakeholders
It’s well known at this point that several American industries have been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictions on personal freedom and movement implemented by the federal and state governments across the U.S. This is true even at sea, where crews of all sorts of private vessels are placed at higher risks than land-based professions.
Because of that, all segments of the maritime sector of commerce have responded to the pandemic in one way or another, prompting a new period of safety training and policymaking focused on addressing the impacts of infectious diseases and ailments that are spread through close proximity human-to-human interactions.
One of the occupations requiring such interactions is commercial fishing, which even before the pandemic was alread...