Fisheries

• Sunday, January 27th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Less hake volume and lower squid prices hit Argentine exports

  

  Argentina fisheries exports dropped in volume and value in 2007 according to the latest release from the country's Nacional Food Safety and Quality Service (SENASA). Exports totaled 505.794 tons of fish and shellfish valued 1,027 billion US dollars which is 13% and 14% below 2006.

• Sunday, January 27th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  South Georgia icefish fishery seeks certification

  

  A South Georgia fishery has become the 50th fishery currently undergoing public full assessment under the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) standard for sustainable and well-managed fisheries.

• Thursday, January 17th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Whalers hand militant conservationists to Australian officials

  

  Japanese whalers are praising the Australian government for its help to resolve a stand-off with militant conservationists in Antarctic waters. The whalers handed over the Australian and British protesters to Australian officials overnight

• Wednesday, January 16th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Salmon disease and risky krill fishery, investors' nightmare

  

  The Norwegian born shipping and salmon farming magnate, now living in Cyprus, Kjell Inge Røkke, not only has recorded heavy losses on his large share in the world's largest salmon farming company, Marine Harvest ASA.

• Wednesday, January 16th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Aussie forfeited rogue longliner Viarsa broken up in India

  

  Famed, controversial fishing vessel Viarsa was dismantled in a Mumbai, India ship breaking yard last December, Australian authorities confirmed this week. The Uruguayan-flagged, 65-metre longliner had played a singular role as the subject of the longest pursuit in Australian maritime history.

• Wednesday, January 16th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Invasive Pacific salmon threatens S. Atlantic marine life

  

  While in North America there are growing concerns about the possible extinction of chinook salmon in Puget Sound and the Columbia River, significant numbers of chinook from the Pacific Ocean have moved around the tip of South America and are invading streams in Argentina, where they don't belong.

• Tuesday, January 15th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Infectious anemia extends among Chilean salmon farms

  Marine Harvest, the world's leading farmed fish producer, continues to be hit hard by the so-called “biological situation” in Chile. On Monday, shares in Marine Harvest fell by some 4.6% after the Norwegian-owned company issued a press statement admitting it did not reach its production forecasts in Chile

• Saturday, January 12th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  South Korean breaks knocks out whale meat racket ring

  

  Police have broken an illegal whale poaching racket, confiscating more than 50 tons of Minke meat in the largest seizure of its kind in South Korea, an official in Seoul said Saturday.

• Saturday, January 12th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Japanese whalers warn Greenpeace pursuer activists

  

  Japanese whalers have warned Greenpeace activists pursuing their fleet in the Southern Ocean against illegal and dangerous interference to the hunt. Greenpeace protest ship Esperanza has located the fleet of six ships conducting so-called scientific whaling and is pursuing the main vessel Nisshin Maru.

• Tuesday, January 8th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Australia to begin sea-air surveillance of Japanese whalers

  Australia will begin sea- and air-based surveillance of Japan's whaling fleet this week foreign affairs minister Stephen Smith announced this week. Australia's center-left Labor government anticipated it would step up action to block Japan from its annual whale hunt, including sending a surveillance plane and a customs ship to gather evidence for a possible international legal challenge.