PERU fishing with guts to report…
The Instituto del Mar del Peru (Imarpe) announced that next month will make a new assessment of the situation of Anchovy in the areas between Talara (Piura) and the southern end of the Peruvian coast.
Operation Eureka LXVII, scheduled for 19 and 20 November, will assess the state of this small pelagic from latitude 04 ° LS (Talara) to the southernmost tip of Peru's maritime domain, and from the coastline up 100 nautical miles.
For this, industrial owners were invited to participate with their boats in the development of this activity and continue to evaluate the situation of Anchovy, Andina reported.
Furthermore, Imarpe submitted to the Ministry of Production (Produce) its report on the current status of the resource stock in the south and exploitation prospects for the period between November 2014 and March 2015.
The scientists said that between August and October, assessment cruise propagation of Kelvin waves are found more frequently than in previous years. This affects the habitat of anchovy and reduces the availability of nutrients and phytoplankton biomass.
According to the report, these environmental factors directly impacted on the distribution patterns and biomass resource available.
Discharges in the southern coastal area “have reported an estimated 25,692 tonnes, which represented 11% of the maximum limit allowable catch (MTAC) set for the season, and was 88% lower than that recorded during the same period last year”, Reads the document.
And the south-estimated stock biomass of 15 October 2014 was 244 329 tonnes, 87% lower than that observed during the winter of 2013.
So far this year, Anchovy landings totaling 336,672 tons.
“Under these conditions of oceanographic anomalies of low biomass and the likely prospects for the coming months of the arrival of a new Kelvin wave that would impact the resource, biomass is insufficient to recommend a total allowable catch limit for the region southern Peru“Explained Imarpe.
SOURCE: Fis.com
