Fisheries

• Thursday, October 2nd 2025 - 08:20 UTC

  Falklands, “knowledge gap” with the Loligo fishery, environmentally sensitive

  

  The second Loligo squid season in the Falkland Islands fishery has been brought to an early close, finishing around a week sooner than expected. The daily monitoring of the catch showed the biomass had reached the minimum threshold required to safeguard the long-term sustainability of the stock.

• Friday, September 19th 2025 - 20:10 UTC

  Falklands, Loligo Season closes a week earlier to conserve stock levels

  

  The Falkland Islands Government Fisheries Department has issued a closure notice for the second Loligo season, which will end at 23:59 today, Friday, 19 September.

• Thursday, September 18th 2025 - 12:41 UTC

  Falklands: Successful Maritime Recovery Takes Place

  

  The yacht LA MARGUERITE, which departed Stanley on Sunday, got into difficulties yesterday afternoon shortly after entering Argentine waters to the southwest of the Falkland Islands.

• Thursday, September 18th 2025 - 09:50 UTC

  Unregulated overfishing in South Atlantic waters has predatory effects

  

  A large fleet of Asian fishing vessels, primarily from China, is overfishing squid in unregulated international waters off the coast of Argentina, according to the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF).

• Wednesday, September 17th 2025 - 19:52 UTC

  New study links squid abundance around Falklands to ocean conditions

  

  A new study has developed an innovative model to forecast the abundance of Argentine shortfin squid (Illex argentinus) in the Falkland Islands region, highlighting how environmental variability drives key fluctuations in this vital resource.

• Monday, September 15th 2025 - 18:07 UTC

  Fish, Trace, Ship – help shape UK Fish Export Service

  

  The United Kingdom Marine Management Organization (MMO) is inviting fishers, merchants, and exporters to help shape changes to the Fish Export Service (FES) to keep seafood exports flowing to Europe from next January.

• Monday, September 15th 2025 - 17:57 UTC

  WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies enters into force; strong support for multilateralism

  

  At a special General Council meeting on 15 September, WTO members celebrated the entry into force of the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies, which commits members to curbing billions of dollars in annual spending on the most harmful subsidies that contribute to the depletion of marine fish stocks.

• Monday, September 8th 2025 - 09:52 UTC

  Lib-Dems, ICCF.UK and Falklands sponsor Conference on Unregulated Fishing in the South Atlantic

  

  The vitally important issue of unregulated fishing in the South Atlantic will be addressed during a fringe meeting at the Liberal Democrat Conference next 21st September at the Bournemouth International Center. Full name of the presentation will be, “Protecting the Blue Frontier: Combating unregulated fishing in the South Atlantic.”

• Friday, August 22nd 2025 - 10:14 UTC

  Uruguayan fishing boats set sail after long union conflict

  

  After an 80-day conflict between labor groupings and Uruguayan businesspeople, some fishing boats set sail on Thursday, with one captain stating that his crew consisted of “trusted personnel” who were not part of the union's online recruitment effort, as the PIT-CNT unions issued a statement affirming that work would resume with the usual crews.

• Tuesday, August 19th 2025 - 09:16 UTC

  Fishing conflict in Uruguay: armed assemblies and threats amid industry crisis

  

  After nearly 80 days of strikes that paralyzed the fishing season and caused losses of up to US$50 million, Uruguay’s fishing union (Suntma) decided to call off its protest — but in an atmosphere of extreme tension. In recent assemblies, armed workers confronted each other and issued direct threats. “If you want bullets, you’ll get bullets,” one participant warned union leaders, according to El País.