The global COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the shortcomings of our health, social, and economic systems. While responding to the health crisis, governments are scrambling to understand and address the knock-on economic effects from market disruptions, and respond to other major disturbances (e.g. natural disasters). We conducted 61 key informant interviews with Indo-Fijian small-scale fisheries (SSF) actors (i.e. fishers, boat owners (that may or may not fish), crew members, and traders) in May 2020, two months after Fiji got its first case of COVID-19 and a month after Cyclone Harold hit the country. We examined how these SSF groups whose access to resources depends on their ability to navigate existing social relations of power, have lived through, experienced, and responded to the two stresses. We found the main impact of COVID-19 on SSF actors was the reduction in sales of fish (73.8 % of respondents) likely a result of reduction in local consumption and/or the loss of tourism markets. Loss of purchasing power meant almost a fifth of Indo-Fijian SSF actors interviewed (comprising 44.4 % of crew members, 16.4 % fishers, 11.5 % boat owners, 8.3 % traders) were unable to obtain sufficient food to meet their families’ daily needs. Many of these SSF actors do not have access to social security or similar safety nets leaving them vulnerable to the current crisis as well as to other shocks and changes. Furthermore, social inequities and power relations surrounding access to fisheries resources and government aid contributed to their vulnerability to economic stresses from COVID-19 and a severe cyclone. An understanding of early impacts of COVID-19 on SSF through an intersectional lens can assist decision-makers to quickly mobilise assistance to help people who are most vulnerable, and avoid widening inequities among social groups.

全球 COVID-19 大流行暴露了我们的健康、社会和经济系统的缺陷。在应对健康危机的同时，各国政府也在争先恐后地了解和解决市场混乱对经济的连锁反应，并应对其他重大干扰（例如自然灾害）。2020 年 5 月，也就是斐济首次获得其第COVID-19 病例和哈罗德飓风袭击该国一个月后。我们研究了这些 SSF 群体的资源获取取决于他们驾驭现有社会权力关系的能力，他们是如何经历、体验和应对这两种压力的。我们发现 COVID-19 对小规模渔业参与者的主要影响是鱼类销量下降（73.8% 的受访者），这可能是当地消费减少和/或旅游市场丧失的结果。购买力的丧失意味着近五分之一的受访印度-斐济 SSF 参与者（包括 44.4% 的船员、16.4% 的渔民、11.5% 的船主、8.3% 的商人）无法获得足够的食物来满足其家庭的日常需求。许多这些小规模渔业参与者无法获得社会保障或类似的安全网，这使他们容易受到当前危机以及其他冲击和变化的影响。此外，围绕获取渔业资源和政府援助的社会不平等和权力关系导致他们容易受到 COVID-19 和严重飓风带来的经济压力。