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The survey closed with a total of 652 responses, of which 537 were sufficiently complete to be usable. Based on the 2018 Census of Aquaculture, this represents approximately 18% of all U.S. aquaculture operations.
- 90% of respondents indicate that they have been impacted by COVID-19.
- 80% of respondents have had sales orders or contracts from private companies canceled
- Sales losses reported ranged from < $1,000 to $5 million.
- 33% of respondents have had to lay off employees. 26% respondents reported that "they will have to soon". The number of employees laid off ranged from 1-3 (56% of respondents) to more than 20 employees, with one comment that a farm or business has had to lay off 66 employees.
- 54% of respondents indicated that they had from 1-3 weeks to make a decision whether to lay off employees, with individual estimates of layoffs in excess of 290 employees for a single aquaculture farm.*
- Without external intervention (such as governmental assistance), 13% of respondents said that they will not survive the next 3 months and 51% said that "maybe" they will survive the next 3 months. Only 20% said that they would survive 6 months without external assistance (47% said "maybe" they would survive 6 months, and 32% said that they would not survive 6 months without external assistance).
*please note that some of these responses are already 3 weeks old.
Additional analyses with these data are underway.
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