There are at present no conclusive studies on the biomass, and one of the first challenges is to clearly establish the status of stocks and a harvesting plan, which currently doesn't exist.
“There are six or eight companies that sell mahi mahi in Ecuador, and we’ve had meetings with Peru to attain eco-certification of this product," Otto Schwarz, president of Ecuador-based Mardex, told IntraFish. "We’ve already had three meetings. This process is progressing slowly but soundly.”
In 2007, Ecuador had landings of 4,000 tons of whole product and exported 1,500 tons of finished product with revenue of $6 million (€4.4
