Fisheries

• Tuesday, December 26th 2023 - 06:56 UTC

  Chilean navy adds submarine to keep track of foreign fishing fleets

  

  The Chilean Navy has bolstered patrol operations against illegal fishing in the South Pacific region and keeping track of fishing vessels crossing into the South Atlantic. Normally operations are the task of naval surface vessels and air surveillance, but last week it took the unusual step of deploying a Scorpene-class attack submarine on a fisheries-enforcement patrol in the Juan Fernandez Archipelago and further south.

• Thursday, December 21st 2023 - 10:54 UTC

  Argentina launches South Atlantic operation targetting illegal fishing

  

  Argentina's Joint Maritime Command has deployed the ARA Piedrabuena Oceanic Patrol Vessel (OPV) to combat illegal fishing through Operation Grifon XVI in the country's territorial Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the Atlantic amid an increase in clandestine operations by jiggers, most of them of Chinese origin.

• Thursday, December 14th 2023 - 11:24 UTC

  “Frustration and dismay” over Falklands Exco ITQ fees decision for 2024

  

  The following release refers to a piece published in the Penguin News, December 8/2023, page 3, “Catches and changes to ITQ fees at Fisheries meeting”. The Falkland Islands Fisheries Companies Association, FIFCA note with dismay and real concern the announcement regarding ITQ fees for 2024.

• Saturday, November 25th 2023 - 10:21 UTC

  Uruguayan Navy seizes Brazilian boat fishing illegally

  

  Uruguay's Navy has captured a Brazilian-flagged fishing vessel carrying some three tons of illegal catch, it was reported Friday in Montevideo.

• Wednesday, November 22nd 2023 - 08:41 UTC

  World Fisheries Day 2022: Investing in social protection to secure and protect fishers’ rights

  

  The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Vatican, and the Catholic maritime charity, Stella Maris, marked on Tuesday World Fisheries Day with a call for greater social protection for small-scale fishers and fish workers.

• Friday, November 10th 2023 - 10:35 UTC

  UK “must expand the Blue Belt” in Overseas Territories to shield the Antarctic from Chinese industrial fishing

  

  By Sir Oliver Heald (*) The UK’s Blue Belt Programme for ocean conservation in our Overseas Territories is one of the Conservative Party’s biggest environmental achievements of the past thirteen years.

• Wednesday, October 25th 2023 - 16:15 UTC

  Argentine fisheries exports in nine months, 350,219 tons, 4.5% below 2022

  

  Argentine fisheries exports during the first nine months of the year reached 350,219 tons, and US$ 1,36bn, mainly to Asia and Europe, but were 4,5% lower than in the same period last year, according to CaPeCa, Argentine chamber of fishing vessels and freezers. As is traditional for Argentina the main export items were hubbsi hake, shrimp tails, while squid faced lower catches, and whole shrimp given a bumper crop saw prices plummet 30%. A major issue in this situation has been the tepid demand from China.

• Monday, October 23rd 2023 - 05:54 UTC

  Major Seafood Show Latin America 2023 in Sao Paulo, 24/26 October

  

  From October 24 to 26, the Seafood Show Latin America 2023 will take place, an event designed to strengthen and promote the fish market in Brazil and Mercosur. Organized by Francal Feiras, the country’s largest national business event promoter, the show aims to bring innovations to a sector that grows year by year. According to data from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO/UN), Latin American countries are expected to increase fish production by 32.8% by 2030.

• Monday, October 23rd 2023 - 05:31 UTC

  China denies US accusations of illegal fishing in South Atlantic; names Uruguay, a reliable friend, as witness

  

  A spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Montevideo published an official release denying United States attacks on Beijing fishing practices, 'bordering on illegal in the South Atlantic', praises the good relations with Uruguay, and commits to keep strengthening close economic and trade links, in multiple areas including measures to combat illegal fishing.

• Thursday, September 7th 2023 - 11:14 UTC

  US accuses China of IUU fishing; Beijing hits back, “a complete political manipulation”

  

  Beijing described the US' designation of China for illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, as “a complete political manipulation”. Last week the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its 2023 Report to Congress on Improving International Fisheries Management, in which the US designated China as one of the seven nations and entities for IUU fishing.