Fisheries

• Tuesday, June 8th 2010 - 05:35 UTC

  Argentina’s head of fisheries flatly denies “uncontrolled hake catches”

  

  Argentina’s head of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Under Secretariat Norberto Yauhar openly denied the alleged collapse of hake (Merluccius hubbsi) fishery in the South Atlantic and claims of absence of control measures and management to ensure its sustainability.

• Saturday, June 5th 2010 - 05:10 UTC

  Argentina’s commercial hake fishery has “two years left”

  

  Over the last 20 years abundance of common hake (Merluccius hubbsi) has declined 80% in the Southwest Atlantic as a result of over-fishing, claims Argentina’s Fundación Vida Silvestre, Wild Life Foundation, (FVSA).

• Friday, June 4th 2010 - 00:33 UTC

  Falklands’ scientists detect North Pacific Ocean species in South Atlantic

  

  Deep sea fish species found in the North Pacific Ocean have mysteriously been caught in the southwest Atlantic in Falkland Islands waters. It is unclear how the animals, a giant rattail grenadier, pelagic eelpout and deep sea squid, travelled so far, according to a report by Matt Walker, Editor of Earth News.

• Saturday, May 29th 2010 - 01:32 UTC

  Australia begins legal action in The Hague against Japan over whaling

  

  Australia has said it will begin legal action against Japan over whaling in the Antarctic. Canberra will argue that the annual whaling hunt in the Southern Ocean is in violation of an international ban on commercial whaling.

• Friday, May 28th 2010 - 04:31 UTC

  Ancestors of modern squid identified by Canadian researchers

  

  The ancestors of modern squid may have existed half a billion years ago - a lot earlier than previously thought. In a new study, Canadian researchers identified a previously unclassifiable fossil that was long believed to belong perhaps to the shrimp family.

• Thursday, May 27th 2010 - 23:47 UTC

  Argentina confirms poor squid season and closes fishery south of parallel 44

  

  Argentina’s squid fishery to the south of parallel 44º was closed last Friday. The measure adopted by the Federal Fisheries Council (CFP) follows scientific information furnished by the National Institute for Fisheries Research and Development (INIDEP).

• Tuesday, May 25th 2010 - 06:15 UTC

  US declares “fishery emergency” in the Gulf of Mexico because of BP oil spill

  

  United States Commerce Secretary Gary Locke on Monday declared a fishery disaster in the Gulf of Mexico because of the economic impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on fisheries in the region.

• Saturday, May 22nd 2010 - 00:29 UTC

  Ban on bi-valve molluscs extraction along Buenos Aires province coastline

  

  Argentina’s province of Buenos Aires re-confirmed on Friday the total ban of commercial, artisan and/or visitors’ extraction of bi-valve molluscs along the South Atlantic coast of the province.

• Saturday, May 22nd 2010 - 00:28 UTC

  UN Environment Program questions ‘free market” policies for global fisheries

  

  UN's top environment official has echoed warnings that commercial fishing could be destroyed within 50 years. “It is not a science fiction scenario. It is within the lifetime of a child born today,” said Achim Steiner, head of the UN Environment Program (Unep).

• Saturday, May 22nd 2010 - 00:15 UTC

  An estimated 26 million tons of fish illegally landed every year, warn researchers

  

  Global measures to regulate the fishing industry lack the capability to tackle illegal catches, warn researchers. Writing in the journal Science, they say that up to 26 million tons of fish, worth an estimated 23 billion USD are landed illegally each year.