Fisheries

• Wednesday, February 23rd 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Spanish sailors in Falklands honor their fellow crew members from Villa de Pitanxo lost off Newfoundland

  

  Crew members from the Spanish fleet which operates with Falkland Islands licenses met on Monday in the capital Stanley for a poignant ceremony to honor their fellow mariners who went down with the fishing vessel Villa de Pitanxo, off Newfoundland.

• Monday, February 21st 2022 - 10:01 UTC

  Chilean fishermen want “Ministry of the Sea” created

  

  Non-industrial fishermen in the Chilean city of Osorno have requested President-elect Gabriel Boric to create a Ministry of the Sea and insisted on the need to change the Fisheries Law so as to eliminate trawling.

• Saturday, February 19th 2022 - 09:22 UTC

  WTO Fisheries to end subsidies committee: Agreement to finalize negotiations as soon as possible

  

  The World Trade Organization committee to eliminate subsidies for illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and banning certain forms of fisheries subsidies to impede overcapacity and overfishing, have agreed to continue working and conclude negotiations as soon as possible,

• Friday, February 18th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  “The worst tragedy of our fishing fleet in 38 years”, Spanish Fisheries minister

  

  Spain's Fisheries Minister Luis Planas has called the sinking of the “Villa de Pitanxo“ off the coast of Canada the ”worst tragedy for our fishing fleet in 38 years”. At least nine sailors have died and a dozen remain missing after the vessel fishing for black halibut sank on Monday night early Tuesday some 450 kilometers from Newfoundland.

• Thursday, February 17th 2022 - 10:20 UTC

  No more searching for survivors from Spanish fishing trawler

  

  Canada's naval authorities have stopped searching for survivors of the Spanish fishing trawler “Villa de Pitanxo” which sank abruptly off Newfoundland Tuesday, it was announced.

• Wednesday, February 16th 2022 - 09:35 UTC

  Mourning in Galicia following the loss of a trawler off Newfourndland: ten dead and eleven missing

  

  The Xunta of Galicia, the government of the northeast of Spain will declare a day of mourning in the region following the sinking of the trawler “Villa de Pitanxo”, off Newfoundland, with the loss of ten lives and another eleven who remain missing. The tragedy occurred on Tuesday in the midst of a North Atlantic storm, and despite a huge rescue effort only three out of 24 crew members managed to survive under hypothermal conditions.

• Tuesday, February 15th 2022 - 21:55 UTC

  Spanish trawler sinks in Canadian waters: 7 dead, many missing

  

  A Spanish-flagged trawler has sunk Tuesday off the Newfoundland coast in eastern Canada, killing at least seven people while rescue efforts were underway to find the rest of the crew. Three survivors have been found, and a lifeboat is still missing. Hence hopes are high others could have made it through.

• Thursday, February 10th 2022 - 09:25 UTC

  Brazil aquaculture exports totaled 9,900 tons in 2021

  

  Brazilian farmed fish exports totaled 9,900 tons last year, 49% more than in 2020, according to Embrapa data in partnership with the Brazilian Fish Farming Association (PeixeBR). Revenue from shipments increased 78% to US$20.7 million.

• Wednesday, February 9th 2022 - 09:35 UTC

  Acoustic survey finds twilight zone in Southern ocean an emporium of fish, BAS report

  

  A new study highlights there could be up to four times more fish in the mesopelagic, or ‘twilight’, zone of the Southern Ocean than previously thought. Scientists at British Antarctic Survey and Bristol University discovered that by accounting for different acoustic properties of fish, the biomass, or total weight, of mesopelagic fish is likely to be 1.8 – 3.6 times higher than they previously calculated.

• Tuesday, February 8th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

  French and EU investigation into major fisheries incident that caused the death of tons of blue whiting

  

  France's fisheries minister has called for an investigation after a major incident with tons of dead fish drifting off the country's Atlantic coast. Video footage filmed by environmental activists shows a mass of dead fish floating on the sea surface.