Querevalu’s frustrated search for the silvery, stiletto-sized fish reflects a voracious, growing global demand for the protein-rich fish meal, and oil, into which nearly Peru’s entire anchovy catch is ...
COAST OF LIMA, PERU. IT DOESN’T GET ANY FRESHER THAN THIS. IT’S A FAMILY AFFAIR. ARTISANAL FISHERMEN JESUS SANTOS, CELINA VIRGO IS DELIVERING THE STARRING INGREDIENT OF PERU’S NATIONAL DISH TO HIS ...
With the “largest anchoveta quota” in the country at 15.9%, Copeinca processes about 21% of Peru’s total catch. Credit: NiAk Stock/Shutterstock. Cooke, a Canadian seafood company, is set to expand its ...
A scientific expedition to Peru has yielded a treasure trove of 27 new species, including an amphibious mouse, a "blob-headed" fish, and other zoological oddities. Ronald Diaz/Conservation ...
Less than 15 years ago, a couple of Peruvian entrepreneurs started seining the waters off the coast of Peru for anchovy, a tiny fish that, processed in different ways, can be tasty as an hors d’oeuvre ...
Santiago Alvez remembers growing up in the Peruvian Amazon, hunting for game and fishing along the Tigre River and nearby oxbow lakes with his father and grandfather. Alvez, now 67, would go on to ...
Querevalu's frustrated search for the silvery, stiletto-sized fish reflects a voracious, growing global demand for the protein-rich fish meal, and oil, into which nearly Peru's entire anchovy catch is ...