PERU fishing with guts to report…
The conditions of the Pacific Ocean resemble that preceded the severe El Niño of 1998. This was the warning given yesterday Luis Icochea oceanographic researcher and former Chairman of Imarpe; Luis Giampietri, Former President of the same institution; Gustavo and Laos, Technical Coordinator of the National Study of El Niño (ENFEN).
According to experts, the temperature, salinity and sea level above normal values, as well as the strength and direction of winds recorded on the coast of Peru, are factors that could lead to serious effects from El Niño which is currently being developed.
Icochea highlighted the way is advancing mass of warm water from Australia. Luis Giampietri, meanwhile, said that if the necessary precautions are not taken this phenomenon could lead to losses of between US $ 5,000 million and $ 6,000 million.
"The possibility that this phenomenon may be the most severe and the greatest impact of the millennium is not ruled out," said a statement from the American Hispanic Forum Information Exchange Issues Mar, quoting Icochea.
To Gustavo Laos, however, it is still too early to determine exactly what the intensity of El Niño.
During the discussion group called The El Niño and its Economic Consequences, which was held yesterday at the Colegio de Ingenieros de Lima, Icochea and Giampietri also noted that this not only brings harm in the country, but also benefits related to production Fisheries.
In this regard, they noted that Peru should be prepared to take advantage of new marine species entering the Sea as well as the highest level of rainfall and temperature change may favor some crops.
SOURCE: Pachamamaradio.org
