Tag: Argentina EEZ

• Tuesday, March 5th 2019 - 04:10 UTC

  Argentina's seven-week Illex squid season has totaled 50.195 tons

  

  The 2019 squid season in Argentina took off with very good weekly yields, and average catches per vessel of 34.6 tons/day during the first seven weeks of operations south of the 44th parallel.

• Saturday, February 16th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Jigger and trawler collide in Argentina's mile 201; crew rescued and heading for Montevideo

  

  A Chinese flagged jigger sank after colliding with a Spanish flagged trawler on Friday morning to the northwest of the Falkland Islands. All thirty crew members have been rescued by other fishing vessels, and are heading for Montevideo, according to the latest reports from the Argentine Coast Guard. The collision involved the jigger V Zhong Yuan Yu 11 and the trawler Pesca Vaqueiro, which went undamaged.

• Saturday, February 9th 2019 - 09:08 UTC

  Argentine Coast Guard seize South Korean trawler allegedly operating in the EEZ

  

  A South Korean flagged trawler allegedly operating in Argentine waters was caught on Thursday red-handed with its nets in the sea and is being escorted to Comodoro Rivadavia.

• Tuesday, July 31st 2018 - 08:12 UTC

  Argentina and Spain sign fisheries MoU to promote conservation and management of straddling species

  

  Argentina and Spain have signed a fisheries and aquaculture bilateral cooperation Memorandum of Understanding. The MoU was stamped in Buenos Aires during the recent G20 Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries ministerial meeting by Argentina's Luis Miguel Etchevehere and Spain's Luis Planas.

• 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, February 8th 2018 - 07:54 UTC

  Arrested Spanish trawler could have sailed into Argentine EEZ because of a mal functioning GPS

  

  The Galician company which owns the “Playa Pesmar Uno” arrested last Sunday by the Argentine Coast Guard allegedly for illegal fishing in the South Atlantic, admits the trawler could have involuntarily sailed into the EEZ, because one of the three GPS on board was malfunctioning.

• Thursday, February 2nd 2017 - 17:28 UTC

  Argentine night air patrolling reveals “city of floating lights” in the South Atlantic

  

  A floating “city” of lights belonging to hundreds of jiggers, “mostly Asians”, operating in the grey fringes of the South Atlantic Argentine Economic Exclusive Zone, EEZ, at the 200 miles borderline have been filmed and monitored night after night by Argentine navy patrol aircraft, reports the Patagonia media.

• Tuesday, May 31st 2016 - 18:11 UTC

  Argentina and China address fishing vessels poaching in the South Atlantic

  

  The Argentine news agency Pescare reports that the repeated illegal incursion of Asian vessels in Argentina's Exclusive Economic Zone prompted the issue to be addressed during the recent meeting of the bilateral Argentina/China Subcommittee on Fisheries.

• Saturday, April 30th 2016 - 13:52 UTC

  South Atlantic poacher Hua Li 8, arrested by Indonesian for illegal fishing

  

  Almost two months of efforts coordinated by Interpol with the cooperation of seven countries on four continents, the Indonesian Armed Forces arrested one of the most wanted poaching fishing vessels. On January 29, the Chinese flagged Hua Li 8 was detected fishing within the EEZ of Argentina, which triggered an immediate operation to arrest the vessel. But despite the display of patrol vessels and aircrafts, and warning shots, the vessel managed to escape.

• Thursday, April 14th 2016 - 09:23 UTC

  Chilean company fined by Argentina after admitting operating with Falklands' license

  

  Argentina's Ministry of Agro-Industry has slapped the maximum fine to a Chilean fishing company, firm Empresas de Desarrollo Pesquero de Chile SA (Emdepes SA), a Chilean subsidiary of the Japanese group Nissui for illegal fishing activities in 2014 in Argentina's EEZ, close to the Falkland Islands.