Nature's capriciousness can lay awry the best laid plans, as exemplified by the poor catches in 2013 that took a heavy toll on several South American fishing companies -- the fishmeal and oil industry suffered across the sector, be it Peru or Chile.
"Last year there were two reasons for the poor fishing business," Eduardo Goycoolea, sales and marketing manager at Chilean fishing company Blumar, told IntraFish. "The fish were not in the water -- last year we caught just 50-60 percent of our sardine and anchovy quota, which is the basis of our fishmeal and fish oil business."
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