During the 1972 fishing season, Peruvian fisheries who largely depended on catching Peruvian anchovetas, a species of anchovy, faced a crisis in which the...

collapsed during the 1970s due to overfishing following the 1972 El Niño Peruvian anchoveta reduction. The fisheries were previously the world's largest...

Barcola. The Peruvian coastal anchovy fisheries crashed in the 1970s after overfishing and an El Niño season largely depleted the Peruvian anchovetas from its...