Fisheries

• Friday, February 9th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Chile: Fishing boats detained in Peruvian waters

  

  Two Chilean fishing boats were detained near the Los Palos beach in the Peruvian province of Tacna after they were caught fishing in Peruvian waters. The boats returned to Santiago on Thursday morning. The case, still under investigation, forms another chapter in the ongoing of the tug-of-war between Chile and Peru over their maritime borders.

• Wednesday, February 7th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Squid: good season kick off in Argentina

  

  Since the commencement of the squid harvest (Illex argentinus), this past 1 February, high performances of the resource have been registered in the area located south to the parallel 44° South.

• Tuesday, February 6th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentina CFP set the maximum allowable catch at 2,500 tonnes for toothfish

  

  As a precautionary measure, the Fishery Federal Council (CFP) will establish a 2,500-tonnes maximum allowable catch (MAC) on toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) for the current year.

• Monday, February 5th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  UN calls for better management of fish stocks

  Rising demand for seafood and other marine produce will lead to a collapse of today's commercial fish stocks by 2050 unless better management is introduced, exemplifying the challenges facing Governments in a globalized world, according to a new United Nations report released Monday.

• Thursday, February 1st 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Chile's first fish farming park to be built in Tongoy

  

  The University of Los Lagos (ULA) is planning to build the first Fish Farming Park in Chile on a 5.5-hectare terrain, in the Tongoy Bay of Coquimbo Region IV, investing more than CLP 450 million (USD 826.400).

• Tuesday, January 30th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Money reward for Japan's whaling fleet position

  

  An anti-whaling group patrolling the Ross Sea off Antarctica is offering a 25.000 US dollars reward to any person or group that can provide coordinates of the Japanese whaling fleet operating in the area.

• Tuesday, January 30th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Falklands celebrates 20 years of financial autonomy

  

  The Falkland Islands is celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the introduction of the Fisheries Conservation Zone with a special commemorative stamp issue and the release of an allusive coin.

• Friday, January 26th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Fishing vessel on fire north of Falklands; 46 rescued

  

  All crewmembers of an Argentine fishing vessel which caught fire and was abandoned early Friday morning off the coast of Santa Cruz province, north of the Falkland Islands have been rescued, reports the Argentine Coast Guard.

• Thursday, January 25th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Alarming signals about South Atlantic hake fishery fragility

  

  A significant drop in the South Atlantic common hake (Merluccius hubbsi) breeding biomass and other alarming signals were collected in the latest report from Argentina's National Institute for Fisheries Research and Development, INIDEP, particularly in an area north of parallel 41 S.

• Sunday, January 21st 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Salvaged “Holberg” towed to Montevideo for repairs

  

  The Uruguayan flagged scallop trawler “Holberg” which ran aground in the Falkland Islands and was later re-floated by a team of divers from the Uruguayan Navy finally arrived in Montevideo over the weekend, towed by the “Mariana Rojamar II”.