Peru: Fishing, tourism sectors hit hard by oil spill near Lima's resort

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The oil spill on the Peruvian coast is causing a serious crisis in the fishing, gastronomy and tourism sectors in Lima’s oldest resort in Ancon.

Images filmed on Friday in Lima’s Ancon show the coastline affected by the oil spill and a multitude of fishing boats anchored at the dock due to the impossibility of fishing because of the contamination of its waters.

The vice president of the Association of Artisanal Fishermen of Ancon, Abelardo Chiroque, explained the difficult situation faced by local fishermen saying, “The fisherman have been affected in their day to day fishing since they work day to day and economically they do not perceive anything since the contamination has originated,” expressed Chiroque.

Not only the fishermen have been directly affected by the oil spill, but also the tourism and restaurant sector have seen their livelihoods endangered.

Images show several empty restaurants on the Ancon pier.

“We have been completely affected, 100 percent (...) sometimes we don’t even sell enough to pay the workers. We have to take out of our pocket, with the hope that there will be more,” explained Eusebio Herrada, owner of a restaurant.

The strong waves caused by the eruption of the Tonga volcano caused an oil spill off the Peruvian coast on January 15 during the unloading process of an oil tank at a refinery managed by Repsol.

The spill, with a load equivalent to 6,000 barrels of crude oil, has already affected at least 21 beaches north of Lima, seriously damaging the ecosystem and local communities that depend on tourism and fishing.

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SOT, Abelardo Chiroque, Vice President of APESCAA (Spanish): “The fishermen have been affected in their day-to-day fishing since they work day-to-day and economically they do not receive anything since the contamination has originated.”

SOT, Abelardo Chiroque, Vice President of APESCAA (Spanish) “The Navy has issued a statement saying that the fishermen cannot work for 90 days. But this is not for 90 days, it could be for nine years or more.”

SOT, Maria Garcia, Fisherwoman (Spanish): “The authorities should verify well because people need to eat fish. Fishermen need to work because they are not going to be working days in shifts. It’s not like that. That day they spend it all and the next day what do they eat. They don’t eat anything, they don’t have anything.”

SOT, Mario Esquen, Deep-sea fisherman (Spanish): “And besides they don’t even want to buy from us. The wholesalers are pulling out of here. The wholesalers are leaving. The golden snapper is the same. The golden snapper that was seven or eight soles, two soles now they are paying. There is not even enough for expenses. That is to say, there is not even an income. We are really suffering right now.”

SOT, Mario Esquen, Deep-sea fisherman (Spanish): “Here, coastal fishing is practically dead. It has really died. The fishing of what is all shore fishing is really dead. The ones who are really hurt here are the “pinteros” (artisanal fishermen).”

SOT, Eusebio Herrada, Restaurant owner (Spanish): “It has hurt us 100 percent, 100 percent. It has hurt us 100 percent because sometimes we don’t even sell enough to pay the workers. We have to take out of our pocket, with the hopes that there will be more in the future.”

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