Peru Likely to Close Anchovy Fishing, Leave Half the Quota in the Water as Reproduction Cycle Starts
SEAFOODNEWS.COM By Michael Ramsingh - July 26, 2016
Peru’s commercial anchovy landings for the first fishing season of 2016 are at about the halfway point of the allowable quota but the fishery has now entered its reproduction stage, which is likely to force an early closure.
Reports from Peru’s Ministry of Production (IMARPE) say 850,000 metric tons of Peru’s commercial 1.8 million metric allowable anchovy catch have been landed.
The season started on July 1 after a stock assessment showed the fishery’s biomass at 7.28 million metric tons. That figure was roughly 65 percent higher from the biomass at the beginning of May and 14 percent above the historical average between 1994 and 2015...
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