1. INSTITUTO DEL MAR DEL PERU
Ciencia y Tecnológica
PERU current research goals
and information needs
GEC and Eastern Pacific Coastal Fisheries
Miami, 02 December, 2003
Blgo. Miguel Ñiquen Carranza
Director de Investigaciones
de Recursos Pelágicos, Neríticos y Oceánicos

2. OVERALL GOAL To know dynamics process of aquatic environment,
biodiversity, rational extraction and
growing of national fisheries.
MONITORING
KNOWLEDGE
MANAGEMENT
- Ocean variability
Resources and fisheries
Quality of aquatic
envinronment
Structure and functioning
of upwelling ecosystem
Life history of main
resources
- New fisheries
Biological characteristics
Long – term trends

4. MAIN UPWELLING AREAS ON THE WORLD
GREELAND
NORTH
AMERICA
ASIA
EUROPE H H
Canary
Current
AFRICA
California
Current
Equatorial line
Perú
Current
Somalia
Current
SOUTH
AMERICA
Benguela
Current
AUSTRALIA H H
Major upwelling H
Area of high pressure
Direction of ocean current

5. MAIN SURFACE AND
SUBSURFACE CURRENTS
ON PERUVIAN COAST

6. OCEAN VARIABILITY

7. EL NIÑO EVENT
LA NIÑA EVENT

8. PRODUCTIVITY AREAS ON SOUTH EAST PACIFIC

11. MAIN FISHERY RESOURCES
SARDINE
PELAGIC
ANCHOVY
PACIFIC MACKEREL
JACK MACKEREL
LIGHTFISH
DEMERSAL
HAKE
INVERTEBRATES
PERUVIAN SCALLOP
JUMBO FLYING SQUID

12. VERTICAL AND LATITUDINAL STRUCTURE OF PELAGIC COMMUNITY
Anchovy
J. mackerel
Mackerel

14. ANNUAL CATCH OF MAIN RESOURCES OF PERUVIAN COAST

15. PELAGIC
RESOURCES
LANDINGS

19. MONITORING SYSTEM SIST ARGOS DISTRIBUTION SIZES 10 DEPTH SST (°C) 5
CHIMBOTE
HUACHO
SAN JUAN
MOLLENDO
ILO
CHICAMA
PIMENTEL
PAITA
PISCO
CALLAO
PERU
Región
Norte
North
Centro
Central
Sur
South 10 5
SARDINA
JUREL
CABALLA
ANCHOVETA
DISTRIBUTION
SIZES
DEPTH
SST (°C)
FLEET
MONITORING SYSTEM

22. ANCHOVY AND SARDINE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION (1966 – 2001)

23. ANCHOVY AND SARDINE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION (1966 – 2001)
LONG TERM TREND OF BIOLOGICAL AND OCEANOGRAPHICAL VARIABLES

24. LONG TERM TRENDS OF OCEANOGRAPHICAL AND BIOLOGICAL VARIABLES

25. ANCHOVY AND SARDINE MANAGEMENT RELATED TO REGIME SHIFT

26. NATIONAL NEEDS AND
NEW PROJECTS

27. Modelling the Peru Upwelling
System seasonal dynamics
(IMARPE – IRD)

28. EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH IN CONTROL ENVIRONMENT
Hidraulic support
Bio – essay
laboratory

29. NATIONAL NEEDS AND NEW PROJECTS
Research in oceanographical and biological modelling
- CO2 Dynamics and Global change
- Remote sensing applications
- Large marine ecosystem Humboldt Current
Climatology of South East Pacific
Analisys of historical zooplankton samples
Paleo-oceanographical research
- Biodiversity measurement
Biotechnology advances

30. INSTITUTO DEL MAR DEL PERU
Ciencia y Tecnológica
PERU current research goals
and information needs
GEC and Eastern Pacific Coastal Fisheries
Miami, 02 December, 2003
Blgo. Miguel Ñiquen Carranza
Director de Investigaciones
de Recursos Pelágicos, Neríticos y Oceánicos