Fisheries

• Wednesday, November 23rd 2022 - 09:37 UTC

  Reappointments made to the Marine Management Organization Board

  

  Solicitor, Falkland Islands former Attorney General and SAERI Chair Peter Judge MBE, together with David Lyall have been reappointed to the Board of the Marine Management Organization. MMO has a wide range of responsibilities, which include implementing plan-led marine management, licensing marine works, and managing UK fishing fleet capacity and UK fisheries quotas.

• Monday, November 21st 2022 - 22:29 UTC

  Netherlands fishermen complain fuel compensations are “far too low”

  

  The Netherlands Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (LNV) announced on 15 November that the fisheries sector will also receive support due to the high fuel costs. Fishermen's organizations call it a first step because the compensation is far too low.

• Monday, November 21st 2022 - 09:52 UTC

  New trawler-freezer to join Falkland’s squid fisheries in 2024

  

  Shipbuilders Nodosa from Marin in Galicia, Spain has formalized the construction of a new freezer trawler, for Orion Fishing Company Ltd., an association of Pereira SA from Vigo with the Falkland Islands Argos Group Ltd. The new trawler is scheduled to be delivered in 2024.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2022 - 08:39 UTC

  Mar del Plata fishermen go on two-day strike over wage bargaining

  

  Fishermen of Mar del Plata's deep-sea Monday launched a 48-hour strike in demand of wage increases of up to 100% to cope with Argentina's inflation and after negotiations with the Business Chambers Caabpa and Caipa yielded no results.

• Monday, November 7th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  Falklands forecasting record hake catch, plus 62,000 tons

  

  The Falkland Islands Department of Natural Resource has announced that the reception of application forms for the Illex packs for the 2023 season must be completed by 16th November 2022.

• Saturday, November 5th 2022 - 10:34 UTC

  Brazilian fisheries export revenue increased 49% in nine months of 2022

  

  Brazilian fisheries exports experienced a 49% revenue increase during the first nine months of this year, compared to the same period in 2021. However, according to the Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) in the 3rd quarter, revenue actually dropped 17%.

• Friday, November 4th 2022 - 10:06 UTC

  Falklands' largest Loligo catches since 1989, but world conditions have changed dramatically

  

  Falkland Islands have experienced an extraordinary Loligo year with catches reaching 101,073 tons in the two season, 54,417 in the first and 43,216 in the second. However great volumes also have their shortcomings, particularly since Falklands' fishing industry this year has had to face dearer fuel and transport costs, and not all the catch has been sold.

• Tuesday, October 25th 2022 - 09:29 UTC

  “Should’ve gone to salmon-savers!” Falklands Unity Marine Limited

  

  Unity Marine Ltd. is a Falkland Islands company linked to the aquiculture industry, which has for many years tried to interest the Legislative and local community in diversifying the Islands economy, through fish farming.

• Monday, October 10th 2022 - 10:20 UTC

  Suggested improvements to the Argentine toothfish fisheries if an MSC certification is to be achieved

  

  Argentine scientists from INIDEP have presented a paper on toothfish biologic-catches in the Argentine dissostichus eleginoides fisheries, based on data collected from operations in 2021. The information for the paper originated in official Argentine stats data and that supplied by observers on longliners with ITQ for the species.

• Saturday, October 1st 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  Hake fishing halted for conservation purposes

  

  Authorities from Uruguay and Argentina have agreed to halt hake capture effective Oct. 1 on a temporary basis to preserve the species, it was announced.