PRODUCE confirms that there will be no second season of anchovy fishing

The Ministry of Production (PRODUCE) today announced that while IMARPE today presented his report on the situation of Anchovy December indicating an expansion of product distribution, Biomass evaluated and prevent juvenile abundance can be assigned a quota capture.

Thus, confirmed that the closure of the fishery Stock North will remain - Center Anchoveta until environmental conditions have returned to normal and Anchovy evidences a strong recovery.

"The presence of juveniles would be mainly to intense reproductive process that Anchoveta has been developing in recent months as a strategy to overcome adverse environmental conditions"Said the ministry in a statement.

And she noted that progressive normalization of the prevailing environmental conditions of the Peruvian Sea is allowing outcrops intensify and biological conditions Anchovy recover steadily.

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PRODUCE noted that in October the Instituto del Mar del Peru (IMARPE) PRODUCE presented the report "Status of Stock Norte - Center Anchoveta" watching the arrival and spread of Kelvin waves greater than in previous years often setting El Niño moderate category (ENFEN), reducing the abundance of food (plankton) and a significant decrease in the availability of anchovy.

Likewise, he said that Operation Eureka LXVII was performed between 19 and November 23 of this year, confirming that the habitat of anchovy was not right with a stock comprised mostly of juveniles ejemaplares.

SOURCE: Gestion.pe