Fisheries

• Wednesday, August 12th 2009 - 19:40 UTC

  Back to the sea for Falklands fisheries research

  

  AFTER eighteen months without a research vessel, the Fisheries Department (FIFD) will be back on the water in October 2009 with a survey in the western parts of the FICZ. The survey will examine the distribution and abundance of hoki and Patagonian hake returning to their feeding grounds after spawning in Argentinean and Chilean waters.

• Wednesday, August 12th 2009 - 11:55 UTC

  Falklands’ readies new grenadier commercial fishery

  

  Enough studies have taken place to include a new grenadier (Macrourus spp.) fishery in the Individual Transferable Quota (ITQ) system under the commercial category, said Falkland Islands Director of Fisheries John Barton.

• Wednesday, August 5th 2009 - 00:43 UTC

  Spider crab season kicks off in Punta Arenas; target 2.300 tons

  

  The first boatloads of Magellan spider crabs (king crab) arrived in Punta Arenas, extreme south of Chile, late last week, marking the commencement of the 2009 spider crab season and the end of the National Fishing Service’s six month ban on hunting the prized crustaceans.

• Saturday, August 1st 2009 - 02:41 UTC

  Fresh report says world’s depleted fisheries can be saved

  

  There is fresh hope that the world's depleted fisheries can be saved from collapse, says a team of researchers. They said that efforts introduced to halt over-fishing in five of the 10 large marine ecosystems they examined were showing signs of success.

• Friday, July 31st 2009 - 04:19 UTC

  Chilean industrial production and sales fall at moderate pace

  

  Chilean industrial output and sales fell less than expected in June, suggesting that the country’s economy could be climbing out of its deepest recession in a decade, according to the latest release from the Statistics Institute, INE.

• Thursday, July 30th 2009 - 06:14 UTC

  Argentine experiences steep slide in fish landings in first half of 2009

  

  A total of 393.209,7 tons of seafood was landed in Argentine high seas ports between January first and 27th. July 2009, which represents 36.1% less than the 614.850 tons of the fist half of 2008.

• Wednesday, July 29th 2009 - 12:35 UTC

  Canadian researchers suspect fish virus came to Chile from Norway in 1996

  

  A group of Canadian researchers suspect that Infectious Salmon Anemia (ISA), a highly contagious fish virus that has pummelled Chile’s farmed salmon industry the past two years, was introduced in Chile as far back as the mid1990s.

• Wednesday, July 29th 2009 - 12:26 UTC

  Russia to experiment fishing guided by the Space Station

  

  Russian cosmonauts working at the International Space Station will help the country’s fishing fleet to detect fish schools and other resources in oceans according to the Russian Space Flights Control Centre (SFCC).

• Tuesday, July 28th 2009 - 14:50 UTC

  European Union tightens fisheries conservation policies

  

  The European Union is committed to combat all predatory practices in the European Community seas and globally to ensure the conservation of many species on the verge of extinction. For this purpose the EC has the Community Fisheries Control Agency, CFCA, based in Vigo, Spain.

• Monday, July 27th 2009 - 12:15 UTC

  Fin whale wedged to the bow of cruise ship in Canada

  

  A rare whale was discovered wedged on to the bow of a cruise ship when it docked in a Canadian port Saturday morning. The 21 metres fin whale, a threatened species in Canada, was found when the Sapphire Princess docked at the Port of Vancouver, the cruise company said.