Peru's IMARPE says They Are Seeing Cobia Escaped from Ecuador
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [SeafoodNews] February 3, 2016
Although widespread in tropical waters, Cobia is not found in the Eastern Tropical Pacific. Thus Peru's fisheries research agency, IMARPE was interested in reports from fishermen of cobia being caught inshore.
The performed indentification, and confirmed that fishermen were catching cobia in the creeks of the Tumbes region this past fall. IMARPE is paying special attention to monitoring the incidence of this species in catches of artisanal fisheries, although it should be noted that since December no news identifications have been recorded.
The hypothesis is that these are cobia escaped from net pens in Ecuador...
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