ABSTRACT
The outstanding features of the Peru upwelling system are high productivity and great variability.
No large changes in the parameters of the anchoveta population were detected in the fishery and survey data analyzed in studies done before 1972, but because of deficiencies in the data such changes may have occurred and gone undetected. These studies might have been adequate in a less variable fishery, and even in the anchoveta fishery were useful in that they prevented an excessive increase in fishing effort. But because they did not allow for the possibility of large changes in the behavior of the population, they were of little value when recruitment failed in 1972. The stock’s collapse in that year and its apparent failure to recover since are still not understood. In the light of this experience, future studies and management of anchoveta fisheries should take into account the potential for large changes in the parameters of the fish populations and in the meaning of the usual fishery statistics and survey data.
INTRODUCTION
Because of upwelling, the coastal waters of Peru are among the world’s most productive. The chief direct consumer of this immense planktonic production is the Peruvian anchoveta, Engraulis ringens Jenyns, and it in turn is the chief forage item of the region’s higher level consumers, including fish, birds, and marine mammals. In some years the normal processes of production and consumption are interrupted when upwelling ceases and warm
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