Table 2.

Actions and measures to support and manage small-scale artisanal fishers in the BBE during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Actors	Actions and measures
National and local governments	✔ Build long-term baseline policies for SSAF during the pandemic and after it
	✔ Create policies to avoid children labor
	✔ Prioritize the re-open of SSAF, cold stores and local popular open markets with low prices
	✔ Create safe touristic policies for the upcoming summer in beaches of the area and foster seafood consumption
	✔ Guarantee and safeguard the entire chain value related to SSAF
	✔ Provide economic relief or cash transference through the access of the EFI
	✔ Simplify the bureaucratic process for the formalization of fishers' sectors, their boats and registers
	✔ Promote the creation of cooperatives to avoid fragmentation and disruption of the sector
	✔ Protect and guarantee fishworkers' health
Researchers (remote working)	✔ Research about SSAF socio-economic situation and impacts of the pandemic including a gender perspective to avoid any gender violence during the confinement
	✔ Increase the monitoring of IUUC fishers
	✔ Include fishers' ecological knowledge (FEK) as an instrument to engage fishers in coastal management during the pandemic
	✔ Identify possible solutions
	✔ Communicate their results to policymakers related to marine governance
Private sector	✔ Support SSAF through market flexibilities and the creation of funding programs
	✔ Support fresh seafood intake for locals in restaurants and hotels following the epidemiologists' recommendations
	✔ Evaluate prices that have collapsed during the pandemic to increase the demand
	✔ Ensure health and safety for workers of the seafood business
Non-governmental organizations (NOGs)	✔ Assist and co-work with researchers in monitoring impacts of SSAF
	✔ Engage with fishers, researches and governments and in the monitoring of coastal areas during the summer holidays with active COVID-19 pandemic
	✔ Support SSAF fishers' market with different actions, such as education programs in local schools through virtual platforms and forums, among others.
Small-scale artisanal fishers (SSAF)	✔ Supply fresh and nutritive seafood for hospitals, schools and community kitchens with low prices
	✔ Collaborate and engage with actors at different levels to create co-participative policies
	✔ Follow the WHO and local governments' recommendations to avoid spreading the virus
	✔ Create cooperatives and reinforce the syndicates to protect their jobs and workers.
	✔ Create new marketing initiatives, such as door-to-door deliveries, ambulant sales, community markets with other local producers
	✔ Take care of their health and their partnerships and demand medical controls