GLOBEC INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER APRIL 2010

Impacts of the Peruvian anchoveta supply chains: from wild fish in the water to protein on the plate Pierre Fréon1, Marilu Bouchon2, Gilles Domalain1, Carlota Estrella2, Federico Iriarte3, Jérôme Lazard4, Marc Legendre5, Isabel Quispe6, Tania Mendo7, Yann Moreau5, Jesus Nuñez5, Juan Carlos Sueiro7, Jorge Tam2, Peter Tyedmers9 and Sylvestre Voisin10 1 IRD, CRHMT, Sète, France ([email protected]) 2 IMARPE, Callao, Peru 3 I&A, Lima, Peru 4 Cirad, Montpellier France 5 GAMET-IRD, Montpellier, France 6 Peruvian Network on LCA, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru 7 TAFI, Tasmania, Australia 8 CooperAccion, Lima, Peru 9 Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada 10 Conseil en Développement, Tours, France The Peruvian anchoveta fishery is the largest national fleet worldwide targeting a single species, with catches averaging six million tons over the last four years (PRODUCE, 2009).  Fish are targeted by both an industrial fleet, whose landings are directed nearly exclusively at fishmeal and fish oil production, and by an artisanal fleet (GRT