Fisheries

• Friday, April 1st 2016 - 01:30 UTC

  Falklands bid farewell to Sea King Helicopters

  

  The Falkland Islands community bid farewell to two Search & Rescue (SAR) helicopters today after over three decades of service. Both the two RAF Sea King helicopters were brought to the capital Stanley today for the local community to say goodbye, as well as meet the crew who man the aircraft. The new AAR helicopter, which will replace the existing RAF SAR service, was also present at the farewell today.

• Thursday, March 31st 2016 - 08:25 UTC

  Chile confirms the loss of 39.000 tons of salmon equivalent to toxic algae

  

  Some 25 million of fish -- equivalent to 39,942 tons of dead biomass -- was the final balance of the emergency caused by algae bloom in 45 farms in the salmon farms of the southern region of Chile, Los Lagos, reported SERNAPESCA, director José Miguel Burgos. A several month’s bloom of toxic algae causes ravage in south Chile salmon and trout farms.

• Thursday, March 31st 2016 - 00:14 UTC

  Beijing reminds Argentina of the jigger sinking before a possible meeting of Macri with Xi Jinping

  

  Beijing said that it “expects Argentina to perform according to law” in reference to the recent sinking of a Chinese flagged jigger by the country's Coast Guard and which was operating in Argentina's EEZ. The announcement is considered significant in Buenos Aires since Argentine president Mauricio Macri is expecting to meet his counterpart Xi Jinping in Washington, next Friday in the framework of the Nuclear security summit.

• Tuesday, March 29th 2016 - 02:59 UTC

  Falklands waiting UK reaction; extended continental shelf does not apply to mobile species such as squid

  

  The Falkland Islands Government, FIG, reacted to the Tuesday official Argentine announcement of its extension of the continental shelf saying it was waiting clarification from the UK government on the implications, if any for the Islands. What is certain is that it does not affect fisheries or squid catches, one of the Islands main source of income.

• Monday, March 28th 2016 - 05:55 UTC

  Japan announces it has harpooned 333 whales in Antarctic waters; conservationists outraged

  

  The Institute for Cetacean Research (ICR), the body behind the Japanese government’s whaling program, announced the return of the Japanese whaling fleet from its Antarctic operations. It is the first time that the Japanese whalers have returned to the Southern Ocean to slaughter whales since the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled its whaling program to be illegal in 2014.

• Wednesday, March 16th 2016 - 16:43 UTC

  Beijing protests sinking of Chinese jigger and calls for a formal inquest into the incident

  

  Beijing made a formal complaint to Argentina and expressed 'great concern' regarding the incident in which a Chinese flagged jigger caught red-handed fishing in the country's EEZ was fired at and sank on Tuesday. Chinese authorities also requested an “immediate inquest” into the procedure of the Argentine Coast Guard in the sinking of the vessel Lu Yuan Yu10.

• Wednesday, March 16th 2016 - 06:05 UTC

  Argentina sinks Chinese jigger which refused to stop and even tried to ram the patrol vessel

  

  Argentina's coast guard has sunk a Chinese flagged jigger that was fishing illegally within its territorial waters, the coast guard said on Tuesday, marking a first test for relations between President Mauricio Macri and Beijing.In a high-seas chase, a coast guard vessel pursued the fishing vessel Lu Yan Yuan Yu 010 toward international waters, firing warning shots across the Chinese boat's bow as it attempted to raise the crew by radio.

• Monday, March 14th 2016 - 23:42 UTC

  World famous toothfish poaching vessel caught and destroyed in Indonesia

  

  Indonesian authorities on Monday bombed the last major ship internationally wanted for years of illegally taking toothfish from southern waters, reiterating a strong message to would-be poachers who enter the country's waters.

• Saturday, March 12th 2016 - 05:40 UTC

  Chile's challenge: disposing 27.700 tons of algae/bloom dead salmon

  

  More than 27,733 tons, equivalent to 72% of the total salmon mortality caused by algae bloom, have been removed from the farms affected by this contingency, Chile's National Fisheries and Aquaculture Service (Sernapesca) informed. In a new report on the emergency affecting the salmon farming industry in the Chilean southern region of Los Lagos, Sernapesca pointed out that 38 farms have been affected by microalgae bloom in the Concession Groups (ACS) 1, 2, 3A, 6, 7, and 10B, with a total mortality amounting to 23.8 million fish, equivalent to more than 38,500 tons.

• Thursday, March 10th 2016 - 21:28 UTC

  Catches of Peruvian giant squid are showing a slow recovery: shift of oceans winds

  

  Catches of Peruvian giant squid (Dosidicus gigas) are showing a slow recovery, something that has long been awaited not only by local fishermen and industrialists, but also by the largest processors in Europe and Asia.