Fisheries

• Thursday, February 17th 2022 - 10:20 UTC

  No more searching for survivors from Spanish fishing trawler

  

  Canada's naval authorities have stopped searching for survivors of the Spanish fishing trawler “Villa de Pitanxo” which sank abruptly off Newfoundland Tuesday, it was announced.

• Wednesday, February 16th 2022 - 09:35 UTC

  Mourning in Galicia following the loss of a trawler off Newfourndland: ten dead and eleven missing

  

  The Xunta of Galicia, the government of the northeast of Spain will declare a day of mourning in the region following the sinking of the trawler “Villa de Pitanxo”, off Newfoundland, with the loss of ten lives and another eleven who remain missing. The tragedy occurred on Tuesday in the midst of a North Atlantic storm, and despite a huge rescue effort only three out of 24 crew members managed to survive under hypothermal conditions.

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

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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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 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

  

  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.