Fisheries

• Wednesday, April 24th 2024 - 10:05 UTC

  Falklands' fishing companies after a Southwest Atlantic fisheries management pact

  

  “The Southwest Atlantic is the largest body of water in the in the world without a RFMO (regional fisheries management organization) and that’s something the Falkland Islands are very keen to see put in place,” said James Bates, Executive Secretary from the Falkland Islands Fishing Companies Association at the 2024 Seafood Expo Global in Barcelona, Spain this week.

• Monday, April 1st 2024 - 10:50 UTC

  Uruguayan fishing said to be “on the brink of collapse”

  

  Uruguayan fishing industry leaders demanded concrete responses from President Luis Lacalle Pou after the activity fell in a stoppage from here it needs to recover. “It is more profitable to bring fish from Argentina,” one of the leaders argued as the sector was said to be “on the verge of collapse.” The crisis worsened in recent weeks as costs keep spiraling.

• Wednesday, March 20th 2024 - 20:02 UTC

  Fish and chips: “The unscrupulous British” had eaten Russian fish for 68 years, says leading ally of Putin

  

  No more fish and chips from Russian waters? A 1956 agreement that allowed British boats to fish in the Barents Sea has been ripped up, in the latest sign of growing tensions between Moscow and London, and the last batch of sanctions imposed on Russia and autocrat Putin criminals by UK.

• Wednesday, March 20th 2024 - 15:08 UTC

  Good squid catch news from Argentina: jiggers managing some 30 tons per day

  

  The Argentine current squid season, based on catches reports is considered encouraging because the so called sub-Patagonic, 46 degrees South, resource keeps the jigger fleet fully occupied with average catches of 30 tons per day, and with good sized specimens.

• Tuesday, March 12th 2024 - 18:35 UTC

  FTA negotiations between Japan and Mercosur to start next month, Paraguayan FM says

  

  The South American Common Market (Mercosur) will start negotiating a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Japan next month, Paraguay's Foreign Minister Rubén Ramírez Lezcano acknowledged in an interview with the Nikkei economic newspaper. Paraguay currently holds the rotating presidency of the regional bloc.

• Saturday, March 9th 2024 - 08:32 UTC

  Mass mortality among farmed salmon in world's main producing countries, scientific report

  

  The frequency and scale of mass mortality events among farmed salmon have increased since 2012, according to a study published in Scientific Reports. In the paper from the University of Victoria, British Columbia, School of Environmental Studies, researcher Gerald Singh and colleagues analyzed salmon mortality data from Norway, Canada, the UK, Chile, Australia, New Zealand — countries that produced over 92% of the world’s farmed salmon in 2021 — between 2012 and 2022.

• Saturday, March 9th 2024 - 08:12 UTC

  Argentina allows Chinese fishing fleet into its EEZ to take refuge from a massive storm

  

  The Argentine navy allowed a fleet of 259 Chinese fishing vessels to enter the country's EEZ (Economic Exclusive Zone) to take refuge from a massive storm with seven meters high waves and winds of more than a hundred kilometers per hour. The Ministry of Defense also announced that once the storm was over the Chinese vessels returned to international waters.

• Monday, March 4th 2024 - 10:27 UTC

  Tsakos closing Montevideo naval operations

  

  The Greek company Tsakos announced it was closing its naval operations in Uruguay but will keep other investments in the South American country, it was reported in Montevideo after early versions that the firm was departing altogether.

• Wednesday, February 28th 2024 - 00:31 UTC

  Falklands Fortuna Ltd. shows its state of the art stern trawler Prion

  

  Fortuna Ltd are delighted to welcome the new stern trawler Prion down the slip in Marin, Spain. 

• Thursday, February 15th 2024 - 12:24 UTC

  Illex Squid: correlation between abundance and sea surface temperatures; Taiwanese experience 1998/2018

  

  ScienceDirect (*) site has published a most interesting study on fishing trends, particularly on the Illex Argentines in the Southwest Atlantic, based on squid catches calculated from daily logbooks recorded by the Taiwanese squid-jigging vessels from 1998 to 2018 across the open sea east of Argentina and north of the exclusive economic zones of the Falkland Islands in the Southwest Atlantic, which was a quality-controlled compilation of regional fisheries data.