During a major El Niño event, Peru closed its anchoveta fishery due to population declines linked to warming waters.
Sources
- What You Need to Know about El Niño (blog.education.nationalgeographic.com)
- https://oceana.org/blog/overfishing-and-el-nino-push-worlds-biggest-single-species-fishery-critical-point/ (oceana.org)
- https://grist.org/economics/el-nino-scrambling-fisheries-throughout-the-pacific/ (grist.org)
- https://www.resalliance.org/tdb-database/71 (resalliance.org)
- https://wodnesprawy.pl/en/el-nino-billion-dollar-losses-in-perus-fishing-industry/ (wodnesprawy.pl)
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