With the prospects of a resumption of the first anchovy season in Peru's north-central waters receding by the day, the question now is whether authorities are letting the situation drift until conditions do not allow further fishing.
Only twice since 2015 has fishing gone beyond the end of July, and those two occurrences happened in the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021 when the season began late.
Adding to the uncertainty over whether this year's first season will actually take place, anchovy shoals continue to cling close the coast and in deep waters with few signs of conditions normalizing.
