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Montevideo, December 22nd 2024 - 22:51 UTC

Fisheries

  • Tuesday, February 15th 2022 - 21:55 UTC

    Spanish trawler sinks in Canadian waters: 7 dead, many missing

    The company owning the doomed trawler also operates in the South Atlantic and in other parts of the world

    A Spanish-flagged trawler has sunk Tuesday off the Newfoundland coast in eastern Canada, killing at least seven people while rescue efforts were underway to find the rest of the crew. Three survivors have been found, and a lifeboat is still missing. Hence hopes are high others could have made it through.

  • Thursday, February 10th 2022 - 09:25 UTC

    Brazil aquaculture exports totaled 9,900 tons in 2021

    The three main markets accounted together for more than 80% of exports. The United States ranked first, with 64% of participation and, Colombia (9%), second.

    Brazilian farmed fish exports totaled 9,900 tons last year, 49% more than in 2020, according to Embrapa data in partnership with the Brazilian Fish Farming Association (PeixeBR). Revenue from shipments increased 78% to US$20.7 million.

  • Wednesday, February 9th 2022 - 09:35 UTC

    Acoustic survey finds twilight zone in Southern ocean an emporium of fish, BAS report

    The top image shows a lanternfish species commonly found in more northerly sectors of the Southern Ocean – Protomyctophum bolini – with the highly reflective gas swimbladder clearly visible.

    A new study highlights there could be up to four times more fish in the mesopelagic, or ‘twilight’, zone of the Southern Ocean than previously thought. Scientists at British Antarctic Survey and Bristol University discovered that by accounting for different acoustic properties of fish, the biomass, or total weight, of mesopelagic fish is likely to be 1.8 – 3.6 times higher than they previously calculated.

  • Tuesday, February 8th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

    French and EU investigation into major fisheries incident that caused the death of tons of blue whiting

    The Sea Shepherd France environmental group filmed the fish, saying they covered an area of about 3,000 square meters.

    France's fisheries minister has called for an investigation after a major incident with tons of dead fish drifting off the country's Atlantic coast. Video footage filmed by environmental activists shows a mass of dead fish floating on the sea surface.

  • Friday, January 28th 2022 - 20:55 UTC

    Argentina's JMC has 431 foreign vessels on its radar

    JMC coordinates operations between Navy and Argentine Coast Guard

    Argentina's Joint Maritime Command (JMC) has denounced the presence of some 431 foreign boats near the country's South Atlantic territorial waters limit, it was reported. Around 80% of the vessels were said to be of Chinese origin.

  • Tuesday, January 25th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

    Shrimp migrations in Argentine Sea to be monitored

    “The study of the migrations of marine organisms helps to know and understand the life cycle of fishery resources,” Inidep said

    The Mar del Plata-based National Institute for Fisheries Research and Development (Inidep), began the campaign aimed at establishing the migrations of shrimp (Pleoticus muelleri) in the Argentine Sea.

  • Saturday, January 22nd 2022 - 09:46 UTC

    Researchers detect around 60 million nests of Antarctic icefish in the Weddell Sea, Current Biology report.

    Near the Filchner Ice Shelf in the south of the Antarctic Weddell Sea, a research team has found the world’s largest fish breeding area known to date. A towed camera system photographed and filmed thousands of nests of icefish of the species Neopagetopsis ionah on the seabed. The density of the nests and the size of the entire breeding area suggest a total number of about 60 million icefish breeding at the time of observation. These findings provide support for the establishment of a Marine Protected Area in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean. A team led by Autun Purser from the Alfred Wegener Institute publish their results in the current issue of the scientific journal Current Biology.

  • Tuesday, January 18th 2022 - 09:35 UTC

    Argentine jiggers authorized to operate between parallels 44 and 48 South

    The decision to move jigger operations further north was considered late

    Since Saturday, January 15, zero hours, Argentine jiggers have been allowed to operate between parallel 44 and parallel 48 South, following the lack and/or minimum catches at the original specified area of parallels 49 to 52 S.

  • Wednesday, January 12th 2022 - 09:36 UTC

    Chilean salmon industry shows how strong and influential it can be

    The Chilean Lower House Fisheries Committee decided to suspend deliberations since they still have to receive representatives from some twenty five interested parties involved in the controversy

    The request from indigenous peoples in the south of Chile and dozens of domestic and international NGO organizations banning salmon farming in nature-protected areas was again frozen in the Chilean congress and will have to wait for its consideration in the following legislature when the next government takes office.

  • Tuesday, December 28th 2021 - 20:35 UTC

    Channel Islands UK/France fishing licenses dispute far from over

    “If the British don't respect the agreement, they won't be able to access freely to our market in the future,” Secretary of State Beaune said.

    Secretary of State for European Affairs Clément Beaune said France is considering litigation proceedings against the United Kingdom over the remaining post-Brexit fishing licenses still pending to be awarded in the island of Jersey. The UK/French licenses dispute at the Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey, off the French coast, has been ongoing for weeks.