Tag: Chinese jiggers

• Monday, October 23rd 2023 - 05:31 UTC

  China denies US accusations of illegal fishing in South Atlantic; names Uruguay, a reliable friend, as witness

  

  A spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Montevideo published an official release denying United States attacks on Beijing fishing practices, 'bordering on illegal in the South Atlantic', praises the good relations with Uruguay, and commits to keep strengthening close economic and trade links, in multiple areas including measures to combat illegal fishing.

• Monday, January 16th 2023 - 10:30 UTC

  Chilean navy reports some 100 jiggers have crossed from the Pacific to the South Atlantic

  

  Over a hundred jiggers have crossed from the Pacific to the Atlantic through the Magellan Strait reports the Chilean navy responsible for monitoring and safe navigation along the waterway.

• Saturday, July 3rd 2021 - 07:40 UTC

  China launches three month squid fishing moratorium in South West Atlantic, official release

  

  China officially launches its voluntary fishing moratorium on the high seas from July this year to preserve squid resources in open waters, according to a resolution from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs on June 28 and reported by the Xinhua news agency.

• Tuesday, September 29th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Some 270 Chinese jiggers catching giant squid in Peruvian EEZ; Navy monitoring the fleet

  

  Peru’s Navy was carefully watching a fleet of around 250 Chinese fishing vessels that had sailed just outside the Andean country’s waters, angering the domestic fishing industry and sparking a Twitter war between Washington and Beijing.

• Tuesday, April 28th 2020 - 08:03 UTC

  Argentina's EEZ “flooded” by Chinese jiggers catching tons of squid

  

  The Association of Argentine Fishing Industry Chambers has sent an urgent open letter to president Alberto Fernandez complaining about the illegal activity of almost a hundred foreign jiggers in the country's EEZ.

• Friday, January 12th 2018 - 07:18 UTC

  Falklands concern with vast fishing fleet gathering on high seas

  

  A vast fleet of fishing vessels assembling to catch Illex squid on the high seas, some 400 miles north of the Falkland Islands, is an issue of concern to the Falkland Islands Fisheries Department.

• Saturday, December 3rd 2016 - 09:53 UTC

  Two Chinese large-scale jiggers heading for the SW Atlantic, announces Pingtan

  

  China's Pingtan Marine has announced the launch of two new squid jiggers, bound for the southwest Atlantic and southeast Pacific oceans. The two newly-completed vessels should reach fishing grounds by late December, and sales of squid catches are then expected to begin in the first quarter of 2017.

• Tuesday, October 1st 2013 - 20:40 UTC

  Argentina’s squid fisheries policy “inconsistent and unsustainable” says expert

  

  Argentina’s latest government’s decisions on squid fishing show that the country’s fisheries policy is “inconsistent and unsustainable,” according to the president of Assistance Food Argentina SA and director of Assistance Food America Inc., Dr. Cesar Augusto Lerena.

• Monday, August 27th 2012 - 05:54 UTC

  Argentina wants to cut Falklands’ squid catches flooding the area with jiggers

  

  Argentina is planning the incorporation of Chinese jiggers to catch Illex squid next season, a decision rejected by the local fishing chambers but which according to the Buenos Aires financial media is linked to the sovereignty dispute over the Falkland Islands and surrounding waters.