Tag: Fisheries Research and Development Institute, INIDEP

• Monday, February 2nd 2026 - 18:12 UTC

  First three weeks Illex squid catches in Argentina considered “encouraging”

  

  The Illex squid season in Argentina, taking into account catches of the three first seeks of 2026 can be considered, “encouraging”, according to Marcela Ivanovic, head of the Cephalopods’ Program from the Fisheries Research and Development Institute, INIDEP.

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• Saturday, December 27th 2025 - 10:29 UTC

  Argentina reschedules Illex squid season timing, catches begin 9th January 2026

  

  Argentina’s jigger lobby has managed to anticipate the beginning of the squid season, advancing the date to next 9 January. According to reports from Mar del Plata, the anticipation of the Argentine squid season 2026 was again adjusted following a letter sent by the Chamber of Argentine Jiggers, CAPA, requesting a review of the Federal Fisheries Council, CFP, Act 33/2025 linked to the beginning of operations south of South latitude parallel 44.

• Monday, September 9th 2024 - 09:14 UTC

  Argentina dispatches a research cruise on Patagonian toothfish

  

  Argentina has launched a research cruise on Patagonian tooth fish (Dissostichus eleginoides) to collect more information on the reproduction physiology of the species. The fishing factory vessel San Arawa II left Ushuaia with a team of scientists from INIDEP, the Mar del Plata based Fisheries Research and Development Institute, and the cruise is expected to last some three weeks.

• Monday, June 24th 2024 - 18:02 UTC

  Argentina prepared to end the Illex squid season for conservation reasons

  

  The squid industry in Argentina is surprised and expectant since the Federal Fisheries Council, CFP, (Act CFP 6/2024) has temporarily ordered all jiggers back to the harbors, given a report from INIDEP, in which the research center in Mar del Plata discovered a notorious lack of small, young squid, SS and S, in the area's biomass.

• 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, September 24th 2019 - 17:32 UTC

  Argentine research vessel Eduardo L. Holmberg sets sail on mackerel mission

  

  After its repair at the Tandanor Shipyard and a series of adjustments in Mar del Plata, the Eduardo L. Holmberg fishing research boat of Argentina's National Institute of Fisheries Research and Development (INIDEP) Monday set sail on a mission to evaluate mackerel (Scomber colias), it was reported.

• Friday, September 6th 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  Falklands' waters joint scientific cruise with Argentina to assess Southern blue whiting biomass

  

  Argentina announced on Wednesday the start of a joint scientific cruise in Falkland Islands' waters to assess Southern blue whiting reproductive biomass, in the framework of the South West Atlantic Fisheries Commission Scientific Sub-Committee activities.

• Monday, August 12th 2019 - 05:43 UTC

  Joint Falklands/UK/Argentina scientific fisheries cruise in September

  

  Argentina and the Falkland Islands will be involved in a scientific assessment cruise of Southern Bluewitting stocks beginning next 9 September. The cruise, the second this year, will take place in the Argentine state of the art scientific vessel “Victor Angelescu”, belonging to the Mar del Plata based Fisheries Investigation and Development Institute, INIDEP.

• Tuesday, April 2nd 2019 - 06:35 UTC

  Argentina authorizes early opening of squid season north of parallel 44

  

  Argentina's Federal Fisheries Council (CFP) decided to authorize the early opening of the northern squid sector, as it has been the case since 2016 on recommendations from the National Fisheries Research and Development Institute (INIDEP).

• Saturday, January 26th 2019 - 09:57 UTC

  Argentina/UK resume joint South Atlantic fisheries scientific assessment cruises

  

  Next February first and after fourteen years Argentina and the United Kingdom will again be involved in a scientific assessment cruise of the Illex squid in the South Atlantic.