TO GO WITH AFP STORY Sacks of fish meal

TO GO WITH AFP STORY Sacks of fish meal stored at a factory in Lima on December 3, 2009. The Peruvian anchoveta (Engraulis ringens), is an important source of foreign currency and food for Peru, where between 6 and 7 million tons of the fish --from which 3 percent for direct human consumption and the rest for the industry and export-- are caught every year. The anchoveta, the world's most caught fish, seek after cold waters and any increase in temperature of the sea may lower its pH, creating an acidity that affects plancton, the main food source of the anchoveta. To protect that important resource, the Peruvian Production ministry on November 27, 2009 banned the catch of anchoveta for five years in a sector of the southern Peru's coastal area. AFP PHOTO/Ernesto BENAVIDES (Photo credit should read ERNESTO BENAVIDES/AFP via Getty Images)