Peru's anchoveta, a fish about 14 centimeters long, supports one of the world's largest fisheries but can be decimated in population by warm El Niño waters.
Sources
- What You Need to Know about El Niño (blog.education.nationalgeographic.com)
- https://aida-americas.org/en/blog/five-reasons-protect-peruvian-anchoveta (aida-americas.org)
- https://oceana.org/blog/overfishing-and-el-nino-push-worlds-biggest-single-species-fishery-critical-point/ (oceana.org)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5454269/ (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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