Fisheries

• Monday, September 8th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  NGO highlight Chilean salmon industry labor problems

  Influential NGOs Oxfam Chile and Fundación Terram began the second phase of their “Not Afraid To Go Against The Current” campaign, an effort originally launched in January to highlight questionable labor and environmental practices within Chile's farmed salmon and trout industry.

• Friday, September 5th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Retail fish prices soar by nearly 23% in United Kingdom

  

  United Kingdom prices have risen by 8.3%t since the beginning of the year amid fears that Britain is facing the worst economic conditions in decades, a report said Friday.

• Wednesday, September 3rd 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  FAO guidelines to ease impact of deep sea areas fishing

  

  Two years of negotiations have resulted in the adoption of new international guidelines to limit the impact of fishing on fragile deep sea fish species and habitats, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO, announced on Wednesday.

• Monday, September 1st 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina: Sector profits squeezed by rising costs

  

  Rising fuel prices, tax and wage increases, and market instability in terms of the future has stoked great concern and uncertaintly among those involved in the national fishing sector.

• Monday, September 1st 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay South Korea sign wide ranging fisheries agreement

  

  Uruguay and South Korea have agreed on a fisheries pact that will facilitate greater cooperation in the development of marine resources, announced the South Korean Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and 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.