Fisheries

• Saturday, May 1st 2010 - 02:20 UTC

  Japan Issues Arrest Warrant for Head of Anti-Whaling Sea Shepherd

  

  Japan’s Coast Guard has obtained an arrest warrant for the head of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, accusing him of ordering members of the protest group to obstruct the Japanese whaling fleet, investigative sources said Friday.

• Saturday, May 1st 2010 - 00:59 UTC

  Iceland Displeased with Whale Hunting Quota Threatens to Pull Out of IWC

  

  Twelve member countries of the International Whaling Commission (IWC)—an 88-country organization created in 1946 to monitor the whaling industry—have proposed catch quotas for the next ten years for countries that hunt whales.

• Friday, April 30th 2010 - 03:04 UTC

  Argentine Coast Guard Arrests Korean Jigger for Illegal Fishing

  

  A Korean jigger was arrested this week in the South Atlantic by the Argentine Coast Guard allegedly for illegal fishing and a catch of 80 tons of squid was seized.

• Thursday, April 29th 2010 - 18:59 UTC

  Fish Meal Price Rockets Because of Chilean Earthquake Damage to Plants

  

  The earthquake in Chile earlier this year destroyed Chilean processing plants tightening world supply of fishmeal and causing world market prices to hit an all-time high. Chile is the world’s second biggest exporter of fishmeal, second only to Peru.

• Thursday, April 29th 2010 - 18:49 UTC

  Australia Opens Brine Shrimp Farm, Key Component in Aquaculture Food Chain

  

  Australian Fisheries Minister Norman Moore embraced the aquaculture potential of Western Australia with the opening of a cutting edge-design commercial brine shrimp farm at Port Gregory, near Geraldton.

• Wednesday, April 28th 2010 - 21:05 UTC

  US Tests Farming Shovelnose Sturgeon for Caviar on a Soy-Based Diet

  

  Ongoing effort to find new uses for soy-based products has kicked off at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale (US) for shovelnose sturgeon caviar production.

• Wednesday, April 28th 2010 - 01:50 UTC

  World Seafood Industry Employs 45 Million and 500 Million Live from Fish Income

  

  New regulations, such as retailers’ requirement that fish must be certified as sustainable, and the impact of the global economic crisis are affecting the seafood industry, especially producers in developing nations, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization FAO.

• Wednesday, April 28th 2010 - 01:19 UTC

  Argentina Hosting FAO Fisheries Meeting to Upgrade Fish Trade and Conservation

  

  The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Committee on Fisheries (COFI) is meeting this week in Buenos Aires to examine technical and economic aspects of the international trade in fish and fishery products.

• Tuesday, April 27th 2010 - 22:38 UTC

  Chilean Conservation Groups Reject Whaling Commission Latest Proposals

  

  A new proposal announced last week by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) would allow the killing of a number of whales in the Antarctic Ocean off the coast of Chile and has Chilean environmental groups upset.

• Friday, April 23rd 2010 - 06:40 UTC

  Whaling Commission unveils compromise proposal which includes Japan

  

  The International Whaling Commission unveiled Thursday a draft proposal to bring all whaling operations under its full control and to strengthen and focus the work of the IWC on conservation issues including a compromise proposal which will cut Japan's annual Antarctic quota by three-quarters in five years.