| Catches of a type of anchovy called anchoveta were above 10 million tons in the late 1960s to 1971 off northern and central Peru. |
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| Edible anchoveta sold in the U.S. market are primarily canned fish from Chile. |
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| Vast quantities of Peruvian anchoveta have been shipped to developed countries for use as animal feed. |
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| For example, the Peruvian anchoveta is the world's largest single-species fishery. |
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| This cold mass of water flows from Antarctica to the equator, bringing with it large schools of fish called anchoveta. |
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| In the 1960s the Peruvian anchoveta fishery was the world's largest fishery. |
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| The upwelling stopped and phytoplankton production plummeted, as did the anchoveta population, and millions of seabirds, dependent on the anchoveta, died. |
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| Increased farming of large predators, such as salmon and tuna, has led to overfishing of prey fish, including anchoveta and herring, which commonly are used as fishmeal. |
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