Peru – On 31st July the first fishing season in both the North/centre and the South of the country were officially closed. In the North/Centre area around 98% of the 2.58 million mt quota was landed, while in the South around 75% of the 375,000 mt quota was captured. On 1st August the second fishing season in the South was officially opened and since then around 9,000 mt of anchovies have been landed against the quota of 450,000 mt.
Not much news to report on El Niño as the effects that this weather phenomenon might have on the anchovy stock won’t be know until September, when the Peruvian Institute for Marine Affairs (Imarpe) will have terminated its scientific cruise along the eruvian coastline. As you can see in the graphs on the right, where we show the sea temperatures and the temperature anomalies on 12th August, the sea temperatures have decreased in the southern area and in the northern parts of the coast up until the port of Supe.