Fisheries

• Saturday, May 29th 2021 - 15:52 UTC

  Controversial women's quota bill in fishing vessels passed by Argentine Senate

  

  The Argentine congress gave half sanction to a bill that modifies several articles of the Federal Fisheries Law making it mandatory for the incorporation of 30% of women and 1% of sexual diversity members to the fishing fleet crews.

• Tuesday, May 11th 2021 - 01:49 UTC

  Vigo anticipates a 50,000 tons Falklands' Loligo catch but it will have to pay tariff to access the EU

  

  The Falkland Islands' fishing industry partners/associates in Vigo are faced with good and bad news. The good news is that the Loligo catch is expected to reach 50,000 tons, while the bad news is that the exceptional squid harvest expected to begin arriving next week in Vigo will be, for the first time facing a 6% tariff when landed in Spain, according to the Galicia media.

• Monday, May 10th 2021 - 09:04 UTC

  Jiggers bring covid-19 infected crews including one dead seaman in Argentina’s Puerto Deseado

  

  Argentina's Coast Guard (Prefecura Naval) is guarding two fishing trawlers at Puerto Deseado in the Province of Santa Cruz as cases of covid-19 erupted among the crews, one sailor having already died of the disease.

• Monday, May 10th 2021 - 06:08 UTC

  Falklands closes first Loligo season earlier; successful catch anticipated

  

  The Falkland Islands Loligo (Falkland Calamari) fishery, which holds two seasons a year, closed its first season of 2021 early – the northern part of the box on April 14 and the south on April 28, three days before the planned last day of May 1.

• Friday, May 7th 2021 - 09:01 UTC

  Warlike tensions between UK, France over Jersey fisheries subside, for now

  

  The Royal Navy late Thursday withdrew two vessels off Jersey Island, thus easing tensions with France over fishing rights and a demonstration by trawlers in demand of access to waters under a different legal status since Brexit.

• Wednesday, May 5th 2021 - 06:47 UTC

  US Government praised for joining conservation efforts in Antarctic Southern Ocean

  

  The government of the United States has been praised by The Pew Charitable Trusts for its decision to co-lead in matters concerning Southern Ocean Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), special climate envoy John Kerry announced during a virtual ministerial meeting hosted by the European Union.

• Wednesday, April 28th 2021 - 09:49 UTC

  Jigging fleet finds large squid off Falklands – season not over yet

  

  As the catching season seemed over for Puerto Deseado's fleet, the new finding brought relief to the squid sector and work now may continue for a while.

• Saturday, April 3rd 2021 - 06:45 UTC

  Peruvian cod shipments bounce back thanks solely to US purchases

  

  Peru's cod exports, which had seen consecutive falls in previous years (2018, 2019 and 2020), totalled 180,046 US dollars in January 2021, compared to 144,122 US dollars during the same period of 2020 for a most welcome 24.9% growth, the Extractive Industries and Services Management of the Association of Exporters (Adex) reported Friday.

• Monday, March 29th 2021 - 22:32 UTC

  Chinese mile 201 operators eye Argentine shipyard

  

  A consortium of Chinese companies describing themselves as mile 201 operators has expressed an interest in acquiring an Argentine shipyard in Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina.

• Sunday, March 28th 2021 - 23:52 UTC

  Spanish MP calls for national Covid-19 protocol for deep-sea fishing crews

  

  Néstor Rego, a member of the Spanish Congress for the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG), last week called upon the Spanish Government to establish an action protocol addressing Covid-19 outbreaks onboard deep-sea fishing vessels.