Fisheries

• Wednesday, August 27th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine fisheries exports unchanged in 12 months

  Argentine fisheries exports reached 318.372 tons and 657.5 million US dollars respectively during the first seven months of 2008 which represents a slight 6% increase in dollars over the same period a year ago, according to the latest figures released by the country's food safety office, Senasa,

• Wednesday, August 27th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Mar del Plata claims fisheries industry “no longer profitable”

  Fisheries in Argentina has become a non profitable business according to several industry chambers mostly based in Mar del Plata where 50% of the country's fleet is docked and a significant percentage of total catches are landed.

• Tuesday, August 19th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands' cutting edge research into toothfish resource

  

  RESEARCH into valuable Falklands resource, Toothfish, is being undertaken by the Falkland Islands Fisheries Department and funded by successful Falklands' fishing company Consolidated Fisheries Limited

• Monday, August 18th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Unanimous vote for Chile's coastline whale sanctuary

  

  Chile's Chamber of Deputies voted unanimously last week to declare the country's coastline a whale sanctuary. The vote is a major step in protecting whales from hunting in Chilean waters – 200 miles from the coast, along the entire length of the country.

• Monday, August 18th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Greenpeace dumps boulders in North Sea to prevent trawling

  

  Greenpeace has sailed into a mini-storm of annoyed marine biologists after dropping massive granite boulders into the North Sea in an attempt to disrupt fishing. Last week the ship the Beluga II began dropping the first of 150 granite rocks weighing 2 to 3 tonnes onto the seabed.

• Wednesday, August 13th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  More Magellanic penguins washed up to Brazil beaches

  

  More than 1000 juvenile Magellanic penguins have washed-up either dead or dying along the Brazilian coast and as far north as Natal in Rio Grande do Norte, 3000 km north of Sao Paulo. IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare - www.ifaw.org ) (*) deployed a team of penguin rehabilitation experts to assist local animal centers that are handling penguins for the first time.

• Tuesday, August 12th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Galicia, a partner in most of the world's major fisheries

  

  Spain is short of fisheries but has huge investments in other fisheries world over, Falklands/Malvinas, Chile, New Zealand, Africa, and does most of the fish processing and trading, according to Alfonso Paz-Andrade Rodríguez president of World Fishing Exhibition.

• Friday, August 8th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Pacific species to invade colder Arctic: study

  

  Marine animals known to inhabit the Pacific Ocean may flock to the waters of the Arctic as global warming increases water temperatures, a new study claims.

• Monday, August 4th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Growing resistance in Chile to salmon industry impacts

  

  Fed up with what they claim to be environmentally destructive practices by Chile's 2.2 billion US dollars farmed salmon industry, a group of local fishermen in far southern Chile's Region XI is set to launch an international boycott of Chilean farmed salmon.

• Friday, August 1st 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile expands list of infectious salmon anemia outbreaks

  

  Chile's National Fishing Service (SERNAPESCA) has expanded its official list of Infectious Salmon Anemia (ISA) outbreak sites yet again, adding four Region X fish farms in its latest fortnightly report. ISA is a highly contagious virus that can be lethal to fish but does not affect humans.