The Pacific Ocean provides Peru with an immense variety of fish and seafood: corvinas, lenguados, chitas, bonito, mero, lobsters, octopus, shrimps, prawns, shellfish and sprocket wheels.

There are 700 varieties of fish and 400 types of seafood. The wealth and diversity of the Peruvian sea are associated with the confluence of two sea currents: the one of “Humboldt” who drags cold waters originating from the south and the one of “El Niño”, which forms in warm equatorial waters.

In the coastal rivers, the nature is prodigal, where shrimps abound with matchless flavor, different from the prawn of the sea. The coral reefs impregnate the seafood with its own force.

The shrimps of valleys of Majes and Ocoña near the city of Arequipa, in the south of Lima, are the most famous, we can also find them in other valleys arriving until about two hundred kilometers to the north of the capital.

In order to discover the sea the old fishermen used wood rafts, known until today as “Caballitos de totora".

They also used shells, thorns of cactus and sharpened stones to fish. Later they used fishing lines and cotton nets. In the Nazca iconography exists anthropomorphic divinities provided with prolonged thumbnails, that is a quality of sacrifying Gods. The fishermen used nail like tools to open and clean the fishes.