The Ministry of Production said that fishing would be allowed from late November to the end of January to a maximum 810,000 metric tons (MT) of anchovy.
??Government news agency Andina said it was a 68 percent drop on the same period last year. ??
Peru’s Ocean Institute, a government agency that regulates the fisheries, said that the biomass of anchovy has dropped to 5.3 million MT, while the sustainable level is considered to be 6 million MT.
