1. RIPLEY !! .. In Peru 3.2 million tonnes of anchovy are extinguished
Imarpe in summer 2014, estimated biomass of 6.6 million tonnes of anchovy and 7 months after
claims that there is only 1.45 million tonnes of anchovy.
The scientific cruise north-central, conducted by the Instituto del Mar del Peru,Imarpe between
August and October of this year,to assess the resource Peruvian Anchovy showed serious
contradictions not only in the method used, also by failing to comply strictly with the protocol,
approved and published in his newsletter. Amazing, even more, the estimated biomass, whose
figure would really underestimated due to the conditions of moderate El Niño event, it is the lowest
observed during the last decade.
It is worth mentioning that the method of hydroacoustic assessment (using a scientific echo sounder
echo-integrator), used in circumstances Sea suffers a slight warming of the surface and subsurface
temperature (rated Child Moderate),and even more so if we add the entry of a train kelvin waves to
evaluate the anchovy is inadequate because some of the schools deepen, spread, stick to the coast or
migrate to other areas,in this case the south. Then we can say, that would have occurred
undervaluation of biomass for the stock assessment,as happened in 1987, 1999 and other years,
whose catches were higher than the established biomass without causing depredation and the
following years catches were very good.
Now about the protocol. Imarpe in 2009 published the "Technical Protocol for Evaluating Acoustic
Areas of Distribution and Abundance of Pelagic Resources" - Report vol. 36 1-2; which
recommends 200 to 600 trawl hauls to reduce biases commonly associated with acoustic evaluation;
however, the scientific body in breach of paragraph 4.2 of the protocol, husk in his own rule and
suspiciously at the BIC Olaya cruise- from August to October 2014, only 165 sets of test conducted
by trawl, also using two boats bolicheras smaller scale IMARPE IV and IMARPE V,made 55
coves with purse seines (36 and 19 sets),resulting in 220 fishing operations, resulting in a total
catch of only 15. 29 tons (of which only 5 tons were anchovy); that is, an average of less than 70
kilos per fishing trip, or less than 25 kilos of anchovy for slaughter, volume than any handmade

2. craft can capture only 1 to 2 coves. So, the question falls mature Can trust a result with small
fishing catches test ?.
On the other hand, Imarpe knows, that fully met the protocol required to check if catches are
minimal, you must repeat these sets also for transparency must publish screenshots haul by haul,
including biological sampling and the number of specimens sampled. Moreover, the scientific body
does not say who was responsible for the evaluation and is recommending a long ban, which makes
one wonder when we read page 32 of the report, which states that 40% of stomach contents
Anchovy sampled Anchovy eggs were. This Christian is, Anchovy under current conditions is
preying or cannibalizing their own species.
It is worth remembering that Imarpe on the cruise conducted in the summer, beginning of 2014 was
estimated at approximately a biomass of 6.6 million tonnes; however,in its report of October 3,
states that the estimated biomass is 1.45 million tons, assuming contradictorily, that the action more
than 5 million tons was reduced,with the catch in that period, less than 2 million.
So if biomass NO HAS INCREASED 1 KILO (not logical to believe), and catches were 1.8 million
should have in our Sea over 3.2 million tonnes of anchovy. What happened to the resource ?,was
dispersed or was undervalued? How much of this resource has stuck to the coast and has migrated
to southern Peru ?. If the latter, his capture would be difficult out of seven miles, as regulated
current Peruvian fisheries legislation, unlike Chile whose law allows you catch from mile 1, as
demonstrated by high volumes captures north of Arica-Chile, according to statistics from the FIFG.
In conclusion, in the north-central area practically have "disappeared more than 3 million tons
Anchovies".