2020-12-182020-12-18Jacqueline Lau, Sarah Sutcliffe. (16/12/2020). We didn’t have money or enough food’: how COVID-19 affected Papua New Guinean fishing families. URL: https://theconversation.com/we-didnt-have-money-or-enough-food-how-covid-19-affected-papua-new-guinean-fishing-families-152009https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12348/4424In March 2020, Papua New Guinea went into a state of emergency to contain the spread of COVID-19. For Ahus Island — a small atoll community of around 600 people off the north coast of Manus Island — the state of emergency had far-reaching consequences. In July and August, we interviewed Ahus islanders about their experience of COVID-19, and what they did to cope. Their stories from the first six months of COVID-19 offer insight into the impacts of the pandemic on small-scale fishing communities and isolated islands.All right reservedcoastal communitiesBlog