After nine months without being able to fish anchovy to guarantee the hydrobiological resource, the Ministry of Production authorized this October 26th the fishing season, but approximately 500,000 families on the Peruvian coast, especially in Piura and Lambayeque, feel with their hands tied without being able to resume their activities normally. What does the authorization of the new anchovy season say?
The fishing unions showed their indignation because the new provision indicates that they cannot fish between 5 and 10 miles from the coast, where 54.32% of the biomass is concentrated, according to the Imarpe studies.
The National Association of Shipowners requests to disseminate the results of new studies of anchovy biomass so as not to paralyze its work. Photo: The Republic
Merardo Vite, president of the Association of Fishing Shipowners of Law No. 26920, said that another of the impediments to this activity is that, since the evaluations carried out in June and August of this year by Imarpe, specimens of anchovy among 10.5cm and 11.5cm. In a new evaluation this month, the same sizes were recorded, but at an adult stage, which implies that it has already reproduced. However, its growth limitation would have been caused by the climate change.
To guarantee that this marine species is adult and suitable for extraction, a new Imarpe study was carried out, but, despite having been concluded, to date, no results have been issued. For this reason, the fishing union has requested an official statement.
“Climate change would explain that in the exploratory fishing In June and August, abundant schools of 11 cm were found and today they should be 13 cm (taking into account that their growth is 1 cm per month). However, the fashion continues at 11.5 cm,” explained Merardo Vite.
For his part, Cristóbal Sandoval, legal advisor of this association, addressed Imarpe and Produce to consider a permissible percentage of juvenile extraction for the second anchovy fishing season, taking into account the current weather conditions of the sea. , which has kept the adult anchovy at 11.5 centimeters.
“If the 11.5 cm trend is maintained throughout 2023, there would never be anchovy fishing in Peru, favoring the Chilean fishing industryexplained the legal advisor.
Source: Larepublica
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