Fisheries

• Tuesday, March 13th 2018 - 09:03 UTC

  Canadian company develops all-natural calamari oil from squid

  

  Canadian company Dr. Dobias Natural Healing has acquired Friend of the Sea Certification for its FeelGood Omega-3 product, an all-natural calamari oil sourced from Japanese flying squid, jumbo flying squid and South Atlantic short-fin squid, fished in South East Pacific Ocean (FAO Area 87).

• Friday, March 9th 2018 - 04:49 UTC

  Falklands' fishing victims of UK Brexit deal, claims Fortuna

  

  “The UK has sold out Falklands fishing for a Brexit era deal,” fishing company Fortuna Ltd Director James Wallace told Penguin News this week. He was replying to much general speculation as to why a Falkland Islands company with a long history of participation in the South Georgia toothfish fishery was refused licenses this season.

• Thursday, March 8th 2018 - 09:17 UTC

  Scottish fishermen want full control of fishing grounds after Brexit

  

  Scottish fishermen have hit out at the EU after the body's guidelines for the next phase of Brexit talks called for continued access to fishing grounds. The EU's draft guidelines for the forthcoming talks aim for “existing” access to waters to be maintained. But Scottish fishing groups call this “arrogant, absurd and nonsensical”.

• Tuesday, March 6th 2018 - 09:31 UTC

  Argentine seafood exports in 2017 totaled 475,591 tons and US$ 1,8bn

  

  Argentine seafood exports grew by almost 7% in volume and around 16% in dollar value during 2017, according to the final figures published by the Under-secretariat of Fisheries in its latest Report. Data from the Economics Department, based on information from INDEC shows that fisheries exports totaled US$ 1,978bn, a 16.4% higher compared to 2016, while the volume was up 6.9% to 475,591 tons.

• Tuesday, March 6th 2018 - 09:22 UTC

  Falklands' calamari fishery: vessels equipped with robust seal exclusion devices

  

  Falkland Islands Director of National Resources, John Barton, reported that after a slow start, fishery catches were beginning to pick up: trawlers had started operating and there were only a few jiggers still to collect their licenses.

• Tuesday, March 6th 2018 - 09:15 UTC

  Washington state phases out Atlantic salmon farming following the collapse of a marine net-pen

  

  After a lengthy debate, Washington State Legislature has passed a bill phasing out Atlantic salmon net-pen farming ban in the state waters. The approved bill would end state leases and permits for operations that grow nonnative finfish in state waters when current leases expire in 2022.

• Thursday, March 1st 2018 - 11:58 UTC

  Spanish trawler caught illegally fishing in South Atlantic fined in Argentina and Spain

  

  Argentina's Fisheries Secretariat imposed a 400.000 Euros fine, (the highest possible) and the seizure of the cargo, some 550.000 Euros, to Galicia's Pesquerias Marinenses following the arrest of trawler Playa Pesmar Uno which was caught operating in Argentina's EEZ, in early February.

• Thursday, March 1st 2018 - 09:31 UTC

  Falklands: Spanish trawlers hope the Loligo season evolves with “no incidents”

  

  Spanish trawlers involved in the Loligo squid catching season in the Falkland Islands are hoping that this year the operation will evolve with “no incidents”, recalling that the previous season was abruptly stopped because of accidental deaths of sea mammals caught in nets.

• Wednesday, February 28th 2018 - 07:14 UTC

  All crew members of Taiwanese jigger which caught fire are rescued in the South Atlantic

  

  The government of the Falkland Islands has reported that all crew members of a Taiwanese jigger which caught fire in the South Atlantic have been rescued and should be arriving in Montevideo in the coming days.

• Saturday, February 24th 2018 - 09:01 UTC

  China, Spain, Taiwan, Japan and S Korea account for 85% global fishing efforts, says Science magazine

  

  More than half of the world’s oceans are being commercially fished, spanning an area four times what is used for global agriculture, according to a new study published in the journal Science. The study is the first in-depth look at the global footprint of the industrial fishing industry.