Fisheries

• Tuesday, November 19th 2019 - 05:17 UTC

  Survival of the big-eye tuna to be decided this week in ICCAT meeting in Spain

  

  The fate of big-eye tuna, over-fished and in decline, could be decided this week when fishing nations meet to set quotas after failing last year to agree on safeguard measures for the valuable food resource. Scientists warn that unless the catch is reduced, stocks of Thunnus obesus - prized for sashimi in Japan and canned worldwide - could collapse within years.

• Saturday, November 16th 2019 - 08:34 UTC

  First Falklands' fishing company signs the 51% Joint Venture shareholding under the new ITQ criteria

  

  Ahead of the Falkland Islands Government Executive Committee decision recently setting out new criteria for Individual Transferable Quota (ITQ) extensions from 2021 to 2046 Beauchene Fishing Co Ltd and Copemar S.A signed a new Joint Venture agreement to commence from 2021.

• Friday, November 8th 2019 - 09:43 UTC

  Falklands undertakes a major review of fisheries policy

  

  A major review of the Falkland Island fisheries establishes a strong foundation, building on what has already been achieved. Executive Council (ExCo) has adopted a number of recommendations from a review carried out in 2018 by New Zealand consultants Terra Moana, of the Falkland Islands’ Individual Transferable Quota (ITQ) system.

• Thursday, November 7th 2019 - 09:18 UTC

  FAO Director General calls for ocean sustainable solutions for fisheries

  

  Various investments in ocean sustainability will raise the amount of fish to feed the poor, helping drive progress towards the eradication of hunger which is the lynchpin for achieving the other Sustainable Development Goals, FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu said in a speech.

• Wednesday, November 6th 2019 - 09:41 UTC

  Forty eight states pledge to ratify the fishing vessel safety Cape Town Agreement

  

  Forty-eight states have signed a public declaration to indicate their determination to ratify the 2012 Cape Town Agreement on fishing vessel safety at a Ministerial Conference held in Torremolinos, Spain, this week.

• Friday, November 1st 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Falklands' catches for calamari squid and hake have risen sustainedly

  

  Falkland Islands' catches for calamari squid and hake have risen substantially over five years. Statistics were outlined at Legislative Assembly on Thursday.

• Friday, October 18th 2019 - 17:41 UTC

  Thousands of Spanish jobs depend on the Falkland Islands fishery

  

  The close links between the Falkland Islands and the Galician fishing and shipbuilding industries were outlined by James Bates, Executive Secretary of the Falkland Islands Fishing Companies Association, (FIFCA), who recently attended the Conxemar 2019, in Vigo, Galicia, the largest frozen seafood exhibition in Europe after Brussels.

• Friday, October 18th 2019 - 10:36 UTC

  Argentina advances the 2020 squid season: 10 January

  

  Argentina's Federal Fishing Council ratified the anticipated start of the 2020 squid season following a request from the fishing organizations and the technical support from Inidep, Argentina's fisheries research and development institute, located in Mar del Plata.

• Thursday, October 17th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Brexit concerns blowing gale across nervous Falklands

  

  The following piece on the Falklands and Brexit was distributed by the French news agency, AFP, both in English and Spanish. - It may be a remote archipelago 13,000km from mainland Britain but the Falkland Islands' incredible biodiversity, as well as fishing and meat exports, are under threat from Brexit.

• Wednesday, October 16th 2019 - 08:10 UTC

  A “ghost ship” smuggling Venezuelan oil probable cause of the massive spill along Brazilian northeast beaches

  

  A huge oil spill off Brazil's northeastern coast may have involved a “ghost ship” carrying Venezuelan oil in breach of US sanctions, a Petrobras expert close to the probe into the disaster said on Tuesday.