Tag: INIDEP

• Wednesday, April 30th 2014 - 03:22 UTC

  Argentina's “Blue Pampa” project to research and develop South Atlantic resources

  

  The recently launched “Blue Pampa” project is a ten-year 'strategic initiative' with the purpose of researching South Atlantic resources in five different areas to ensure conservation and management, plus reinforce Argentine sovereignty with inter-disciplinary campaigns and inter-ministerial support, according to Argentina's Science, Technology and Productive Innovation ministry.

• Tuesday, October 29th 2013 - 00:13 UTC

  NASA solves the mystery of a “city of lights” in the South Atlantic night: jiggers

  

  When in December 2012, the NOAA National Geophysical Data Center and the NASA Earth Observatory released a new map of the Earth as it appears at night they “found something fishy off the coast of Argentina” but now the mystery has been solved. About 300 to 500 kilometers offshore, a city of light appeared in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean. There are no human settlements there, nor fires or gas wells. But there are an awful lot of fishing boats.

• Monday, September 30th 2013 - 16:52 UTC

  Argentine flagged vessels catch of Illex squid totaled 186.969 tons, says Inidep

  

  A report from Argentina’s INIDEP (fisheries research institute) presented to the Fisheries Federal Council last week indicates that during 2013 Illex squid catches totalled 434.561 tons of which 156.163 were landed by 66 Argentine jiggers. The report identified as Number 20, refers to the first 35 weeks of this year, (1 to 35) and includes Argentine waters and outside Argentina’s Exclusive Economic Zone, ZEEA.

• Wednesday, July 24th 2013 - 06:37 UTC

  Argentina bans Illex squid catches for 30 days: average size is below 800 grams

  

  Following on recommendations from scientific cruise surveys Argentina’s Federal Fisheries Council, CFP, decided to temporarily ban Illex squid catching operations, north of 44o South, with the purpose of giving the cephalopods time to increase in size.

• Friday, May 10th 2013 - 07:23 UTC

  Falklands’ denies political impact of Argentine South Georgia scientific cruise

  

  News this week that Argentina had decided to undertake fisheries research in the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI) is not connected in any way to the Falklands, Acting Governor Sandra Tyler-Haywood has assured.

• Tuesday, May 7th 2013 - 08:42 UTC

  Falklands/South Georgia dispute placed by Argentina under the CCALMR umbrella

  

  The Buenos Aires media is reporting a potential incident situation in South Georgia waters which could erupt into something more complicated from the moment the Argentine research vessel ‘Eduardo Holmberg’ has been involved in scientific activities in a zone which last year was declared by the UK as a Maritime Protected Area, MPA, and which Argentina does not recognize since it considers it ‘an area in dispute’.

• Saturday, April 27th 2013 - 03:28 UTC

  South Georgia ‘area’ will be surveyed by Argentine scientific research vessel

  

  Argentina’s scientific research vessel “Dr. Eduardo L. Holmberg” left on Friday from Mar del Plata for the South Georgia area for a thirty day cruise in the framework of the Convention for the conservation of Antarctic marine living resources, CCAMLR, reports the Foreign Ministry from Buenos Aires.

• 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.

• Wednesday, July 11th 2012 - 20:19 UTC

  Argentina to apply new software for quantifying international jigger fleet

  

  Argentina’s National Institute for Fisheries Research and Development, Inidep, announced the development of software that can process, validate and/or automatically calibrate satellite night images of jiggers operating for squid at the 201 mile.

• Friday, May 27th 2011 - 08:20 UTC

  Argentina bans hake and squid fisheries; Auditing office confirms over-fishing

  

  Argentina suspended the hake season in the south of Patagonia and banned squid operations following on scientific reports of over fishing that have considerably limited catches of both species said industry sources following an official audit which questions government fisheries controls.