Argentina closes squid fisheries until June 18 for conservation

Saturday, May 21st 2011 - 03:19 UTC

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Argentina’s Federal Fisheries Council, CFP, ordered the closure of the squid (Illex argentinus) fishery to the south and north of parallel 44° as from 21 May until June 18 because of a low resource biomass. Read full article

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GeoffWard
Strong circumstantial evidence of recruitment overfishing in previous years in the Rio del Plata spawning grounds.
Hard to be certain because Argentina has withdrawn from integrated research across this fishery.
May 21st, 2011 - 08:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Rhaurie-Craughwell
Looks like Thinks master plan to deprive the Falklands of Squid, by over fishing their sector has backblasted :)
May 24th, 2011 - 10:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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