Peru's anchoveta, a fish about 14 centimeters long, supports one of the world's largest fisheries but can be decimated in population by warm El Niño waters.
Notes on verification
Multiple independent, credible sources (NGO, peer-reviewed, FAO-related) corroborate the fish's size range, its status as the world's largest single-species fishery, and its vulnerability to El Niño-driven population collapses. [tier=gold indep_score=0.838 clusters=4 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- What You Need to Know about El Niño (seed:science_and_space)
- https://aida-americas.org/en/blog/five-reasons-protect-peruvian-anchoveta (corroboration)
- https://oceana.org/blog/overfishing-and-el-nino-push-worlds-biggest-single-species-fishery-critical-point/ (corroboration)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5454269/ (corroboration)
- https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article/82/12/fsaf214/8369710 (corroboration)