Fisheries

• 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.

• Monday, January 7th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Bluefin tuna sells for 202 US dollars a kilo in Tokyo market

  

  A Hong Kong sushi restaurant owner paid a record 55.700 US dollars for a massive blue-fin tuna in the first auction of the year at the world's largest fish market in Tokyo, an official and media reports said.

• Monday, January 7th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Falklands' vessel survives beaching on North West Island

  

  Falkland Islands coastal vessel, Tamar, survived unscathed a beaching on Bold Rocks at Keppel Island on North West Falklands on Saturday morning.

• Sunday, January 6th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  St Helena longliner adrift in Antarctica rescued by USAF

  

  A St Helena registered longliner stranded in the Ross Sea in Antarctica for two weeks is expected to leave the area sometime on Monday.

• Sunday, January 6th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Rescued Chilean factory vessel arrives in Punta Areas

  

  Pulled by a high seas tug the Chilean flagged fishing vessel, stranded close to Antarctic waters for several days, finally arrived late Saturday to the city of Punta Arenas, from where she regularly operates.