The Fisheries Department of Magallanes University has successfully farmed Canadian Halibut specimens in a pilot project in Bahía Laredo, a few miles away from Punta Arenas.
Last Friday the Executive Board of International Monetary Fund finally approved an eight months transitional agreement with Argentina that should enable the country to face coming payments in the next eight months. An enthusiastic Argentine president Eduardo Duhalde declared Argentina is back in the international community and congratulated Finance Minister Roberto Lavagna and Central Bank president Alfonso Prat Gay.
Headlines: Puerto Madryn is Chilean; Sea Sciences Congreso.