Only 18 squid jiggers are fishing for squid (Illex argentinus) in Argentine waters south of parallel 44º, since the season officially opened last February first. The rest of the fleet remains docked, revealed satellite-based information released by the Argentine Deputy Secretary of Fisheries and Aquaculture (SSP&A).
The surge in oil prices this week to over 100 US dollars a barrel is part of a trend of higher oil prices driven largely by sustained growth in demand that is likely to have little effect on global growth, according to an International Monetary Fund spokesperson.
Norwegian production of salmon is highly intensive and with massive use of technology together with a quick response logistics web makes it the leading country in the industry world wide.
Brazil at the end of 2007 had 12.623 billion barrels in proven oil reserves, the National Petroleum Agency, ANP, said on its Web site this week. Brazil also had 364.99 billion cubic meters of natural gas reserves.
The European Union temporarily suspended export certificates for three Uruguayan fish processing plants and questioned the country's Fisheries Department regulations' compliance system, confirmed sources from Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries.