On November 9, 2024 workers employed at the Inversiones Quiaza plant gathered to demand payment of wages they alleged were being withheld by the company. Arguing “they do not have money to feed their children,” demonstrators burned the front door of the plant in protest.1
On November 15, 2024, demonstrators gathered in Chimbote to protest against fishmeal companies, according to Armed Conflict Location and Event Data.2 The protest was likely targeting this plant but the database only indicates that it was within one kilometer of the Inversiones Quiaza plant. The demonstration came after local fishmeal companies reduced anchovy prices from $350 per metric ton in the previous fishing season to $250 per metric ton.3 The group called for an indefinite strike and demanded a meeting with company directors.4
On February 2, 2020 the general secretary of Villa Maria town in Nuevo Chimbote joined a dozen residents to protest against fishing companies that “release a great quantity of toxic gas,” claiming it “endangers the health of the sector.”5 The protest took place within one kilometer of the Inversiones Quiaza plant and lasted two days, according to Armed Conflict Location and Event Data.6 Demonstrators called for Peru’s Environmental Assessment and Control Agency to intervene.7
Inversiones Quiaza S.A.C. did not respond to a request for comment.8