Tag: South Atlantic Joint Fisheries Committee

• Tuesday, June 16th 2020 - 10:30 UTC

  Solá confirms end of fisheries info exchange with Falklands: on this, they decided how many licenses to award

  

  Higher fines to those illegally fishing in Argentine waters, including around the Malvinas Islands, is directed to discourage poachers, indicated Argentine foreign minister Felipe Solá who also defended the decision to interrupt the exchange of fisheries information on the South Atlantic bio-mass with the United Kingdom and the Falklands.

• 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.

• Friday, June 1st 2018 - 09:00 UTC

  Tierra del Fuego insists with a representative in the SW Atlantic Fisheries sub committee

  

  Tierra del Fuego media and Clarin in Buenos Aires coincide that foreign minister Jorge Faurie has admitted the possibility for a representative from the extreme south province to attend the Argentine/UK South West Atlantic Fisheries Scientific Sub Committee meetings, which were recently re-launched at the Argentine capital.

• Thursday, March 15th 2018 - 06:51 UTC

  UK, Argentina and Falklands closer to agreeing on fisheries cooperation

  

  The United Kingdom, Argentina and the Falkland Islands are closer to agreeing on South Atlantic fisheries improved cooperation, for the conservation of shared resources as once existed with regular joint scientific cruises.

• Saturday, January 14th 2017 - 08:37 UTC

  Malcorra reiterates: Argentina willing to cooperative research in the South Atlantic

  

  Foreign minister Susana Malcorra said fisheries licensing in the South Atlantic is of great concern for Argentina because of the “overall ongoing depredation”, and recalled that there is an item referred to the issue in the September UK-Argentine joint statement, which has yet to be addressed and that most probably it will follow on the identification of unknown soldiers buried in the Falklands and the additional flights issues.

• Friday, February 24th 2012 - 07:46 UTC

  Argentine claims of Falklands’ ‘militarization’ is ‘unfounded and baseless’

  

  Argentine claims that the UK is ‘militarizing’ the South Atlantic and the Falklands are ‘unfounded’ and ‘baseless’ according to a letter from British ambassador Mark Lyall-Grant addressed to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.