Tag: Alexander Arkhipkin

• Wednesday, April 16th 2025 - 22:57 UTC

  The giant squid trawled by Falklands’ vessel preserved at London’s Natural History Museum

  

  In February 2006, a 8.62 meters giant squid caught off the Falkland Islands April 2005 went on public display at the Natural History Museum in London. Researchers at the museum undertook a painstaking process to preserve the giant creature, which is on display in a 9m long glass tank immersed in a mix of salt water and formalin.

• Tuesday, March 6th 2018 - 09:22 UTC

  Falklands' calamari fishery: vessels equipped with robust seal exclusion devices

  

  Falkland Islands Director of National Resources, John Barton, reported that after a slow start, fishery catches were beginning to pick up: trawlers had started operating and there were only a few jiggers still to collect their licenses.

• Friday, September 15th 2017 - 07:23 UTC

  Falklands: Substantial progress with seal mitigation in Calamari fishery

  

  By Senior Fisheries Scientist Dr Alexander Arkhipkin - The Department of Natural Resources (Fisheries) has reported that seal mortalities were brought to negligible levels thanks to recent mitigation measures. Since the end of August, all Loligo trawlers were required to have seal exclusion devices (SEDs) in their trawls.

• Friday, August 18th 2017 - 09:24 UTC

  Falklands: Outwitting canny fur seals feasting on abundant Loligo

  

  Falkland Islands Senior Fisheries Scientist Dr Alexander Arkhipkin explains the habits of fur seals and the efforts undertaken to reduce by-catch in the Loligo fishery. Stocks of Falkland calamari (Loligo) are very prolific this year.

• Friday, August 11th 2017 - 20:26 UTC

  Falklands' SAERI lead in Ascension Island tropical marine research

  

  The Journal of Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (*) has this month released a special issue focussing on Ascension Island’s marine biodiversity. Falklands' based SAERI Director Dr Paul Brickle explained that 20 papers reported on the results of 202 sampling events, comprising a mixture of quantitative SCUBA surveys involving belt transects for fish and mobile fauna and quadrat photography for sessile fauna.

• Friday, August 17th 2012 - 06:38 UTC

  Falklands working on finfish and loligo fishing gear to reduce by-catch

  

  The Falkland Islands Fisheries Department scientists are currently investigating whether changes in fishing gear used in the finfish and loligo fleets can reduce by-catch, Fisheries Scientist Alexander Arkhipkin told Penguin News.

• Friday, January 28th 2011 - 21:33 UTC

  Poor Start to Falklands Illex Season

  

  VESSELS fishing for the squid species Illex argentinus in Falklands waters have been reporting poor catches of around two and five ton per day so far this season, confirmed Falkland Islands Fisheries Scientist Alexander Arkhipkin.