Tag: Loligo squid season

• Monday, May 10th 2021 - 06:08 UTC

  Falklands closes first Loligo season earlier; successful catch anticipated

  

  The Falkland Islands Loligo (Falkland Calamari) fishery, which holds two seasons a year, closed its first season of 2021 early – the northern part of the box on April 14 and the south on April 28, three days before the planned last day of May 1.

• Thursday, August 27th 2020 - 09:23 UTC

  Falklands' company expects its state of the art trawler F/V Falcon ready for the Loligo February 2021 season

  

  F/V Falcon, the latest trawler from the Falkland Islands Fortuna fishing company was launched on Wednesday at the Nodosa Shipyard in Vigo, Spain. The vessel will now undergo further completion works, leading to sea trials later in the year, and ready to join the Falklands' fleet for the first Loligo season, commencing February 2021.

• Friday, May 1st 2020 - 07:32 UTC

  Falklands' first Loligo season ends; vessels off to Vigo, and back by end of July for second season

  

  The Falkland Islands government, FIG, announced that the first loligo season has come to a close as of 28 April, and on Thursday a number of vessels arrived in Stanley Harbor and Port William.

• Thursday, May 2nd 2019 - 19:03 UTC

  Loligo squid season in Falklands with over 51.000 tons while iIlex falls

  

  The first season of the two loligo (Falklands calamari) seasons of 2019 closed with total catches of 51,000 tonnes, a 10,000 increase on the first season of 2018 and less than 30,000 tonnes short of the total for both 2018 seasons, 78,913 tonnes.