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Montevideo, August 22nd 2025 - 17:25 UTC

Fisheries

  • Friday, October 18th 2024 - 08:00 UTC

    Orkney and Shetland MP, Chair of All Party Parliamentary Group on Fisheries

    “Fishing is at a critical moment with both opportunities and challenges for the industry,” Carmichael MP

    Alistair Carmichael, MP for Orkney and Shetland, has been elected Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Fisheries (APPG). APPG is a cross-party group in Parliament that discusses and advocates for fisheries policies and related issues.

  • Thursday, October 3rd 2024 - 09:45 UTC

    Falklands fishing group Fortuna incorporates state of the art trawler-freezer

    Prion docked in Marin for the ceremony

    The Falklands Petrel Fishing Company Ltd., belonging to Fortuna Group and Galician associate Pescapuerta Group officially received Monday afternoon at the Nodosa shipyard in Marin, Spain, state of the art trawler-freezer F/V Prion, considered among the best ever built in Spain and which will begin operations in the next squid season 2025 in Falklands waters.

  • Friday, September 27th 2024 - 08:36 UTC

    Falklands Maritime Authority message on World Maritime Day, “...Safety First”

    World Maritime Day

    On World Maritime Day, 26th September, the Falkland Islands Maritime Authority released the following,

  • Monday, September 16th 2024 - 20:00 UTC

    Japan targets Brazil for its sale of seafood products

    Brazilian chef Thiago Castanho praised the incredible sweet scallops and oysters from Hokkaido

    Japan is promoting the sale of seafood in Brazil, where the largest overseas community of people of Japanese origin live, mainly in Sao Paulo. The event was held by Japan’s agriculture ministry in collaboration with other groups in Sao Paulo last week, and the goods showcased included Japanese marine products and sake.

  • Monday, September 9th 2024 - 09:14 UTC

    Argentina dispatches a research cruise on Patagonian toothfish

    The area under research is located between parallels 54 and 55 degrees South and Meridians 61 to 64, West.

    Argentina has launched a research cruise on Patagonian tooth fish (Dissostichus eleginoides) to collect more information on the reproduction physiology of the species. The fishing factory vessel San Arawa II left Ushuaia with a team of scientists from INIDEP, the Mar del Plata based Fisheries Research and Development Institute, and the cruise is expected to last some three weeks.

  • Friday, September 6th 2024 - 09:36 UTC

    Falklands plans to create a consultation Maritime Committee seeking advice from the sector

    MLA Ford said stakeholders might consist of...“the Falkland Islands Fisheries Committee, South American Atlantic Service Ltd,

    The Falkland Islands Government Committee system will have a new addition and that is the Maritime committee, and is forecasted to function broadly along the lines of the fisheries committee has been confirmed.

  • Wednesday, September 4th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Uruguay inaugurates fishing port terminal

    “The Argentine government understood, after 200 years of struggle,” that Montevideo's port offers better conditions than that of Buenos Aires

    Uruguayan authorities inaugurated a new fishing port in Capurro on Tuesday after a US$ 110 million investment, an “important milestone” that will house the activity in Montevideo, President Luis Lacalle Pou explained. The head of state also pointed out that “it has been many years since a public port was built here.”

  • Tuesday, August 20th 2024 - 07:47 UTC

    Scottish company exploiting and abusing foreign mariners

    Workers were employed by TN Trawlers and its sister companies, owned by the Nicholson family, based in the town of Annan on the southern coast of Scotland.

    BBC is reporting that dozens of workers from around the world may have been trafficked into the UK to work for a small family-owned Scottish fishing firm. Thirty-five men from the Philippines, Ghana, India and Sri Lanka were recognized as victims of modern slavery by the Home Office after being referred to it between 2012 and 2020.

  • Monday, August 19th 2024 - 07:12 UTC

    Falklands cancels second season of Loligo squid for conservation reasons

    Despite the fishing industry agreeing with reasons not to open the second Loligo season, this will have a significant impact on the fishing sector

    In July 2024 the Falkland Islands Fisheries Department conducted a routine pre-season survey prior to the second Loligo season, working in close partnership with local fishing companies. The survey results showed the lowest second pre-season biomass estimate since 2008, with the lower end of the estimate being below the Fisheries Department safe stock replenishment threshold of 10,000 tonnes.

  • Friday, August 16th 2024 - 10:04 UTC

    Argos Georgia: bodies of six Galician mariners expected Monday in Spain

    Minute of silence celebrated in Baiona for the sailors of the Argos Georgia ship that died in Falklands waters. Photo: EFE/Salvador Sas

    The inquests into the deaths of six 6 crew members of the FV Argos Georgia was opened this week in the Falkland Islands Coroners Court, Malcolm Simmons. Those in attendance, both virtually and in person, included Nigel Phillips, Governor of St Helena, (since the vessel flew the Red Ensign of St Helena), representatives for the Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Nick Hibberd from the UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch, Rosario Bernal, Consul General of Spain in London, and next of kin for crew members.