Peru government prohibits extraction of paiche from Ucayali’s Imiría Lake for next 10 years

Peru has prohibited the extraction of paiche and other fish from Ucayali’s Imiría and Chauya Lakes until 2019, reported state news agency Andina on Thursday. The regulation, published today in official state daily El Peruano, is applicable only to commercial extraction, and not to subsistence fishing. As one of the largest freshwater fishes in the [...]