The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic could create around 270,000 additional seafood cannery jobs in Peru if anchovy and other fish bound for export is instead diverted to satisfy domestic consumption, Peru's Andina reported

The newspaper quoted Jesús Véliz, which it identified as an expert in fisheries law, as saying that Peruvians consume over three million fish annually with sales worth $120m. The industry as it exists now generates some 116,000 jobs. However, catches for direct human consumption only represents 30% of the country's catches with the rest going to uses such as fish meal and fish oil [...]