The National Fisheries Society emphasized that the fishing industry in Peru has multiple actors and develops beyond the manufacture of fishmeal and fish oil. Fish 300
Thus, the industrial fleet mackerel, mackerel, anchovy and hake fishing to offer the population canned and frozen at competitive prices. These species are strictly regulated with reproductive closures, minimum sizes and global fishing quotas. In addition, the industrial fleet is permanently supervised by satellite control mechanisms and inspections with production personnel on board the same ships and in the plants.
The manufacturing fishing activity is composed of 393 plants, of which 222 are dedicated to the production of canned, frozen and cured, 52 to the production of residual flour and waste reuse, while 119 to the production of fishmeal .
For canning, it has 73 companies and 79 plants. In that sense, in the SNP there are nine companies that manufacture canned food and own 14 plants, which represent 40% of the national production capacity.
On the other hand, 90% of the Peruvian fishing fleet (16,405 vessels out of a total of 18,211) is artisanal and smaller scale. It is also the one that has grown the most in the last 20 years, going from 6,268 artisanal and smaller-scale vessels in 1995 to 16,405 in 2012, that is, 163%.
The fishmeal fishing companies (shipowners with anchovy fishing permits) are 494. Of that total, the members of the National Fisheries Society (SNP) are 12 and have an industrial steel fleet.
79.4%, that is, 392 companies, is represented by the wood-fleet ship owners, which do not belong to the SNP. Finally, there are another 90 companies with an industrial steel fleet (18.2%), which are also not part of this fishing union.
Similarly, the industrial fleet has 628 warehouses for direct human consumption, whether frozen, preserved or cured.
