Casablanca: Fish, undisputed best seller of Ramadan

Published Apr 28, 2020

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The article highlights the resilience of seafood markets in a popular metropolis during the COVID-19 pandemic and the health emergency, ensuring adequate supply and adherence to safety measures like social distancing, mask-wearing, and sanitization. Despite slight price fluctuations, seafood remains affordable for customers, with a variety of offerings including sardines, whiting, anchovies, sole, shrimps, and more. The market's crowded fishmonger departments and the rise in e-commerce for fish sales, complete with home delivery, reflect the industry's adaptability in challenging times. The article also touches on the challenges posed by speculators and the positive impact of reduced fishing activities on water disinfection and environmental health.

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Original content

Sardines, whiting, anchovies, sole, pageot, horse mackerel, shrimps, squid, sea bream, monkfish are, among others, varieties of seafood offered on market stalls, which attract a large crowd, but less dense than usual. The sufficient and varied supply during the first three days of the fast dissipated all fear of shortage and outbreak, as a direct result of the state of health emergency in progress since March 20. Anxious to respect health regulations, sellers and customers take care, as best they can, to protect themselves and to adopt barrier gestures (use of hydroalcoholic gels, distancing, wearing gloves and masks, etc.). This is what has been observed in one of the popular markets of the metropolis where the stalls are well stocked. On this market, the prices of the most popular seafood products experienced a slight variation compared to the period before the holy month, much to the relief of lovers of fried foods and purses tested by the crisis. The prices fluctuated, from ...

Source: LOpinion