Tag: South AtlanticOcean

• Wednesday, October 9th 2019 - 10:57 UTC

  Argentina extends exploration licenses to five oil companies in South Atlantic

  

  Argentina has awarded five oil companies licenses to explore for hydrocarbons offshore, in the country's continental shelf, in an area identified as the Argentine Sea, or South Atlantic, which basically extends between the continent and the Falkland Islands

• 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, July 31st 2012 - 00:54 UTC

  Uruguay and NOAA work in programs to track sharks and sea turtles

  

  Uruguay with the help of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is becoming a pioneer in the marking and tracking of sharks and turtles in the western South Atlantic, which allows to establish migrating routes and other valuable data for the protection of these species.

• Friday, June 8th 2012 - 23:18 UTC

  Environmentalists propose a whales’ sanctuary ring along the American continent

  

  Environment organizations meeting in Panama will demand the creation of a whales’ sanctuary in the south Atlantic and south Pacific, at the coming meeting of the International Whaling Commission.