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Montevideo, October 26th 2025 - 04:23 UTC

Fisheries

  • Saturday, July 12th 2025 - 10:30 UTC

    Boric enacts Chile's new Fisheries Law

    “Wealth belongs to those who produce it, and that wealth should not remain in the hands of large companies,” Boric insisted

    Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font enacted Chile's new Fisheries Division Law (Law 21,752) on Thursday, a landmark piece of legislation that rebalances fishing quotas in favor of the artisanal sector. The signing into law follows its successful passage through the Constitutional Court. Joining Boric at the ceremony were Economy Minister Nicolás Grau and Undersecretary of Fisheries Julio Salas.

  • Monday, June 30th 2025 - 09:54 UTC

    Argentine shrimp catch going through severe crisis

    The crisis has led to economic damage in ports like Mar del Plata and Puerto Madryn

    A severe crisis in Argentina's shrimp fishing industry, described as the worst in its history, has left 113 freezer vessels idle, 5,000 workers unemployed, and caused over US$200 million in export losses. The conflict stems from a dispute between fishing companies and unions (SOMU and Simape) over adjusting the Collective Labor Agreement, which ties workers' production bonuses to a 2005 shrimp price of US$12 per kilo.

  • Monday, June 16th 2025 - 10:50 UTC

    Great triumph for David Attenborough and his Ocean film: end of bottom trawling??

    Sir David Attenborough and King Charles at the United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC-3) in the French city of Nice

    At the age of 99, the documentary film-maker David Attenborough has achieved his greatest triumph. With a single film clip, he has signed the death warrant for one of the world’s most destructive industries: bottom trawling. The companies and countries that do it will go down fighting and it will take time, but they will go down.

  • Monday, June 9th 2025 - 09:12 UTC

    UK Government wants to end bottom trawling to protect MPAs sea beds; 12 weeks consultation

    A consultation will invite marine and fisheries stakeholders to share their views and evidence on the prohibition of destructive bottom-towed fishing gear (Pic Greenpeace)

    Bottom trawling – a fishing method that involves dragging large nets along the sea floor – could be banned across more vulnerable areas of English seas. The government is committed to protecting UK oceans and has outlined plans to ban the destructive practice in more Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). The measures would help protect rare marine animals, as well as the delicate sea-beds on which they rely, from indiscriminate and potentially irreversible damage.

  • Monday, June 9th 2025 - 08:07 UTC

    Sustainable Fisheries at South Georgia MPA

    Sue Gregory holds s Patagonian toothfish (Photo: Martin Collins)

    Sue Gregory has worked as the GSGSSI Senior Marine & Fisheries Manager for the past 8 years. Prior to that Sue worked as a fisheries ecologist on the South Georgia Project at the British Antarctic Survey for many years, including overwintering on South Georgia, conducting research surveys and acting as a scientific observer on Southern Ocean commercial fishing vessels In the following GSGGSSI Newsletter, Sue relates her experience.

  • Tuesday, May 27th 2025 - 16:04 UTC

    Fortuna Ltd secures Tristan da Cunha lobster concession and transport contract

    “This partnership promises exciting opportunities for the people of Tristan da Cunha and for Fortuna,” said James Wallace, Managing Director of Fortuna Ltd

    Tristan da Cunha, the world’s most remote inhabited island, has awarded its prized lobster concession to Fortuna Ltd, a British Overseas Territory-based company with global seafood operations.

  • Wednesday, May 21st 2025 - 08:55 UTC

    Following 12-year fisheries access agreement with EU, UK launches £360m Fishing and Coastal Growth Fund

    The Fund will invest in new technology and equipment to modernize Britain’s fishing fleet and train the next generation of fishers and promote the seafood sector to export (Pic EFE)

    British fishing and coastal communities will benefit from £360 million investment to drive growth and boost the sector for the future as the Government launches its Fishing and Coastal Growth Fund.  

  • Friday, May 16th 2025 - 08:36 UTC

    Whaling 1950 statistics, 30.000 hunted in Antarctica, despite “poor season in South Georgia”

    “The weather had been very bad around South Georgia during the month with the result that “whaling has been particularly poor.” (Pic SG Museum)

    The reporting of fisheries statistics for illex and loligo and varieties of finfish in 2025 are considered perfectly standard, although sensitive, but almost a century ago the reporting of whaling statistics in Antarctica was the norm too even when the large numbers caused some dismay.

  • Thursday, May 15th 2025 - 10:11 UTC

    The cephalopods market faces tight supply and rising prices, FAO report

    The Falkland Islands fishery, the main supplier of the Spanish market has seen seasons cut short because of lack of sufficient biomass, and the size of squid

    The global cephalopods market is under increasing strain as tight supply continues in early 2025. Reduced landings in key producing regions, adverse weather, and extra tariff barriers are contributing to upward pressure on cephalopod prices across major international markets, reports FAO’s Mohamed Hammi.

  • Monday, May 12th 2025 - 10:25 UTC

    South Georgia, Expressions of Interest for the time charter of a UK-Flagged Fisheries Patrol Vessel

    Pharos SG is the current Fisheries Patrol Vessel

    The Government of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI) is seeking expressions of interest for the Time Charter of a UK-flagged Fisheries Patrol Vessel (FPV).