Tag: Javier Touza

• Tuesday, July 30th 2024 - 08:55 UTC

  Argos Georgia, unsuccessful search for missing mariners; nine bodies on Tuesday to be flown to UK for autopsies

  

  As part of the ongoing recovery effort for those crew members still missing from the fishing vessel Argos Georgia, over the weekend MV Pharos SG and one other vessel conducted a search of the datum area. This search unfortunately provided no further results of anyone missing or debris, points out the latest report from the Falkland Islands Government.

• Thursday, April 25th 2024 - 05:32 UTC

  Argentines satisfied with this year's squid catches, “higher than expected”

  

  Landings of squid in Puerto Madryn, Chubut province, Argentine Patagonia are higher than last year's and can be considered a “great success for fisheries and our province,” according to Diego Pérez, manager of the Madryn port.

• Thursday, January 11th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

  Galicia fleet sail for Falklands fisheries, “it's an adventure, given the uncertainties”

  

  Some 1,200 crew members are readying in Galicia to depart for the South Atlantic fisheries to begin the first of two squid in Falkland Islands waters. A mission according to reports from the Vigo media, which could be one of the most difficult of the long standing relation between the Spanish fishermen and their Falklands counterpart partners.

• Saturday, December 30th 2023 - 06:33 UTC

  Minister Rutley's second visit to the Falklands in a month: big changes in South Atlantic fisheries policies?

  

  Foreign Office minister for the Americas, Caribbean, and Overseas Territories David Rutley has been to the Falkland Islands again this week, the second visit in a month, and in the meantime this did not prevent him from on December 10, to represent the British government in Buenos Aires for the taking office ceremony of Argentine extreme liberal president, Javier Milei.

• Tuesday, May 11th 2021 - 01:49 UTC

  Vigo anticipates a 50,000 tons Falklands' Loligo catch but it will have to pay tariff to access the EU

  

  The Falkland Islands' fishing industry partners/associates in Vigo are faced with good and bad news. The good news is that the Loligo catch is expected to reach 50,000 tons, while the bad news is that the exceptional squid harvest expected to begin arriving next week in Vigo will be, for the first time facing a 6% tariff when landed in Spain, according to the Galicia media.