The COVID-19 pandemic has led to environmental recovery in some ecosystems from a global “anthropause,” yet such evidence for natural resources with extraction or production value (e.g., fisheries) is limited. This brief report provides a data-driven global snapshot of expert-perceived impacts of COVID-19 on inland fisheries. We distributed an online survey assessing perceptions of inland fishery pressures in June and July 2020 to basin-level inland fishery experts (i.e., identified by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations across the global North and South); 437 respondents from 79 countries addressed 93 unique hydrological basins, accounting for 82.1% of global inland fish catch. Based on the responses analyzed against extrinsic fish catch and human development index data, pandemic impacts on inland fisheries 1) add gradation to the largely positive environmental narrative of the global pandemic and 2) identify that basins of higher provisioning value are perceived to experience greater fishery pressures but may have limited compensatory capacity to mitigate COVID-19 impacts along with negative pressures already present.

COVID-19大流行导致全球生态系统从全球“灭蚊”中恢复过来，然而，具有开采或生产价值的自然资源（例如渔业）的证据有限。这份简短的报告提供了数据驱动的全球快照，概述了专家认为COVID-19对内陆渔业的影响。我们向流域一级的内陆渔业专家（即由联合国粮食及农业组织在全球北部和南部确定的）分发了一份在线调查，以评估2020年6月和2020年对内陆渔业压力的看法；来自79个国家/地区的437位受访者研究了93个独特的水文盆地，占全球内陆鱼类捕捞量的82.1％。根据针对外来鱼类捕捞和人类发展指数数据进行的分析，