FIGURE 1.
COVID‐19 and associated media reports on seafood impacts in the USA. (a) Government lockdown stringency index (“17 indicators aggregated reporting a number between 1 and 100 to reflect the level of government action,” Hale et al., 2020), (b) COVID‐19‐related deaths per day in the United States and (c) the total number of news articles published per day (from GDELT database) with particular search terms (seeMethods). (d) Distribution of COVID‐19 and seafood news articles per capita (from GDELT database) for each individual state since the start of the pandemic. (e–h) Distribution of impacts by production type, production scale, product form and species groups affected. An impact is defined as explicitly reported on in a news article for our smaller (n = 196) manually processed news database