Fisheries

• Thursday, July 22nd 2010 - 17:08 UTC

  King crab season takes off in southern Chile; 2.600 tons were caught in 2009

  

  Chile’s King Crab season has officially kicked off for this year. The southern king crab is a delicacy in Chile, as 90% of each year’s catch is shipped to markets in Europe, North America and Asia. In Santiago, fresh king crab starts at about 25 US dollars per pound.

• Friday, July 9th 2010 - 07:07 UTC

  Argentina: Toothfish TAC set

  

  Argentine Federal Fisheries Council (CFP) established the total allowable catch (TAC) for toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) of 3,250 tonnes for the current year.

• Thursday, July 8th 2010 - 01:27 UTC

  Falklands’ Fisheries scientists discover mating habits of deep-sea squid

  

  The mating habits of deep-sea squid have been revealed for the first time, after the discovery of a male squid with a huge elongated and erect penis, according to an article from the BBC credited to Matt Walker, Editor, Earth News.

• Monday, June 28th 2010 - 00:53 UTC

  Japan was prepared to yield and regrets a package regulating whaling was not achieved

  

  Failure to agree a common way forward at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) annual meeting is “unfortunate”, says Japan's minister attending. In an interview with BBC News, Ms Yasue Funayama said Japan had had to “sweat and bleed” to bring agreement closer.

• Thursday, June 24th 2010 - 02:24 UTC

  Lack of compromise questions credibility of International Whaling Commission

  

  Attempts to agree a compromise between whaling nations and their opponents at the International Whaling Commission's (IWC) annual meeting in Morocco have failed. After two days of private discussions, delegates reported they had been unable to reach agreement on major issues.

• Wednesday, June 23rd 2010 - 03:08 UTC

  Whaling summit in Morocco: conservationists divided

  

  Campaigners have unveiled a petition signed by more than a million people calling for maintenance of the global moratorium on commercial whaling. It was presented to Australian minister Peter Garrett outside the International Whaling Commission meeting in Morocco.

• Friday, June 18th 2010 - 00:37 UTC

  Salmon farming in Chile greater environmental threat than estimated

  

  Salmon farms in Chile are a worse threat to the environment than originally thought following on unexpected results from a German scientific research team studying communications among whales in the southern Pacific along Chilean Patagonia.

• Monday, June 14th 2010 - 04:04 UTC

  Viral epidemic for third year in a row ravages French oyster farms

  

  French oyster-growers are facing ruin because of a viral epidemic that for a third year in a row has been wiping out millions of baby shellfish. From the Mediterranean coast to the bay of Arcachon on the Atlantic and now Brittany, farmers have been watching in dismay in recent weeks as the virus once again moved northwards, keeping pace with the rising sea temperature.

• Tuesday, June 8th 2010 - 05:35 UTC

  Argentina’s head of fisheries flatly denies “uncontrolled hake catches”

  

  Argentina’s head of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Under Secretariat Norberto Yauhar openly denied the alleged collapse of hake (Merluccius hubbsi) fishery in the South Atlantic and claims of absence of control measures and management to ensure its sustainability.

• Saturday, June 5th 2010 - 05:10 UTC

  Argentina’s commercial hake fishery has “two years left”

  

  Over the last 20 years abundance of common hake (Merluccius hubbsi) has declined 80% in the Southwest Atlantic as a result of over-fishing, claims Argentina’s Fundación Vida Silvestre, Wild Life Foundation, (FVSA).