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Montevideo, April 2nd 2025 - 03:33 UTC

Fisheries

  • Thursday, September 11th 2014 - 03:12 UTC

    Falklands explore potential for small-scale commercial fishery with 20 focal species

    Chilean urchin - Loxechinus albus (|Pic: SMSG)

    By Dr. Deborah Davidson - The South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute (SAERI) has been established since March 2012, and already has an expanding team of 12 employees based in Stanley (one of whom is a PhD student), five international PhD students, and three employees based in Ascension Island and one working in Saint Helena - all on various projects.

  • Tuesday, September 9th 2014 - 04:36 UTC

    A hundred Spanish fishing vessels return to Moroccan waters

    There will be a relaxation of the conditions of compulsory capture landing in Moroccan ports, “which will allow better operation of the fleet”

    Representatives of the European Union (EU) and Morocco that make up the Joint Committee managed to solve all the practical issues which have been pending since the bilateral fisheries agreement was signed and that prevented the African country from issuing the fishing licenses.

  • Saturday, September 6th 2014 - 07:11 UTC

    Argentina opens hake quota reallocation period for the rest of the year

    Reported hake catches so far this year in Argentina have been below levels of last year which was not a good season

    Argentina's Federal Fisheries Council (CFP) has reassigned hake (Merluccius hubbsi) catches for the remainder of the year. According to Resolution 8/14, published in the Official Gazette, the vessel owners that considered themselves unable to capture the entire allocated hake quota, can partially return it to a reserve fund for future reallocation.

  • Saturday, September 6th 2014 - 07:04 UTC

    Is the controversial 'squid war' with Argentina reignited?

    “Despite initial concern..., catches of Illex have exceeded 270,000 tons, which is the highest since the fishery began in 1987” said Governor Colin Roberts

    The Falkland Islands Fisheries Department has reported this year that squid fishing generated the largest annual capture since records began, representing a major boost to the Islands economy.

  • Friday, September 5th 2014 - 03:28 UTC

    Falklands' GDP 'volatile' because of fisheries and oil and gas exploration

    Oil industry activities input to the Falklands economy in 2012 meant the per capita GDP soared to £77.4 thousand for 2012.

    Recently released data shows that the Falkland Islands Gross Domestic Product (GDP) continues to be volatile: expanding considerably during some years and shrinking in others. For example, 2012, a year of intense hydrocarbons activity the per capita for a population of 2.562, in the books soared to £77.400.

  • Wednesday, September 3rd 2014 - 22:17 UTC

    China expanding its investments in Argentina's South Atlantic fisheries

    Argentina's head of Fisheries department is in Shanghai and met with private companies and government officials

    China is interested in investing in Argentine port infrastructure and in setting up companies with access to the South Atlantic fisheries, according to reports from Shanghai where an Argentine top level delegation is currently negotiating in the framework of the China-Argentina cooperation agreement.

  • Tuesday, September 2nd 2014 - 19:53 UTC

    New Zealand increases hoki TAAC following successful stock conservation management

    ”This shows the success of our world-leading quota management system (QMS). It is flexible and driven by science”, said Minister Nathan Guy.

    The Deepwater Group says the increase in the total allowable commercial catch (TACC) for hoki shows the benefits of a long term commitment to build biomass in this major New Zealand fishery. An increase in the hoki catch, from 150,000 to 160,000 tons, was announced on at the Seafood Industry Conference in Wellington by the Minister for Primary Industries Nathan Guy.

  • Tuesday, September 2nd 2014 - 07:36 UTC

    Pescanova seems to be turning around following a severe financial purge

    According to the official document, Pescanova’s sales totaled 434 million Euros between January and June 2014

    The approval of the creditors’ agreement considering reductions over 90% of the debt helped the Galician multinational firm Pescanova achieve a net profit of EUR 1,790 million in the first half of this year. The six-month accounts submitted to the Spanish National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) show the cancellation of the firm’s bulky insolvency has meant the entry of EUR 2,3 million, which in the accounts figure as income.

  • Wednesday, August 20th 2014 - 21:24 UTC

    Red tide devastates mussel growing and canning industry in Galicia

    “It has pretty much stopped all activities at the 67 plants in Galicia because we only process local production” said Juan Manuel Vieites from ANFACO.

    The presence of the lipophilic toxin in the Galician estuaries, (northwest Spain) has caused the closure of almost all Galician mussel polygons and forced the closure of activities in the local canning industry. The red tide is currently blocking 90% of the rafts production, since only two polygons located in Betanzos and four in Redondela are open, reported Atlantico news.

  • Friday, August 15th 2014 - 06:40 UTC

    Chilean lawmakers approve initiative to ban trawling in territorial waters

    “Gradually reducing the effort of trawling is a presidential commitment, where marine ecosystems harmed by trawling also benefit,” pointed out Machuca.

    The House of Representatives approved this week a draft agreement to ban trawling in Chile. With 55 votes in support, six against and five abstentions, the deputies voted in favor of the Draft Resolution No. 100, which requests the Executive to submit a legislative initiative to amend Article 49 of Act No. 18,892 in order to ban fish catching by trawling.