Fisheries
FisheriesArgentina: Toothfish TAC set
Argentine Federal Fisheries Council (CFP) established the total allowable catch (TAC) for toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) of 3,250 tonnes for the current year.
Falklands’ Fisheries scientists discover mating habits of deep-sea squid
The mating habits of deep-sea squid have been revealed for the first time, after the discovery of a male squid with a huge elongated and erect penis, according to an article from the BBC credited to Matt Walker, Editor, Earth News.
Japan was prepared to yield and regrets a package regulating whaling was not achieved
Failure to agree a common way forward at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) annual meeting is “unfortunate”, says Japan's minister attending. In an interview with BBC News, Ms Yasue Funayama said Japan had had to “sweat and bleed” to bring agreement closer.
Lack of compromise questions credibility of International Whaling Commission
Attempts to agree a compromise between whaling nations and their opponents at the International Whaling Commission's (IWC) annual meeting in Morocco have failed. After two days of private discussions, delegates reported they had been unable to reach agreement on major issues.
Whaling summit in Morocco: conservationists divided
Campaigners have unveiled a petition signed by more than a million people calling for maintenance of the global moratorium on commercial whaling. It was presented to Australian minister Peter Garrett outside the International Whaling Commission meeting in Morocco.
Salmon farming in Chile greater environmental threat than estimated
Salmon farms in Chile are a worse threat to the environment than originally thought following on unexpected results from a German scientific research team studying communications among whales in the southern Pacific along Chilean Patagonia.
Viral epidemic for third year in a row ravages French oyster farms
French oyster-growers are facing ruin because of a viral epidemic that for a third year in a row has been wiping out millions of baby shellfish. From the Mediterranean coast to the bay of Arcachon on the Atlantic and now Brittany, farmers have been watching in dismay in recent weeks as the virus once again moved northwards, keeping pace with the rising sea temperature.
Argentina’s head of fisheries flatly denies “uncontrolled hake catches”
Argentina’s head of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Under Secretariat Norberto Yauhar openly denied the alleged collapse of hake (Merluccius hubbsi) fishery in the South Atlantic and claims of absence of control measures and management to ensure its sustainability.
Argentina’s commercial hake fishery has “two years left”
Over the last 20 years abundance of common hake (Merluccius hubbsi) has declined 80% in the Southwest Atlantic as a result of over-fishing, claims Argentina’s Fundación Vida Silvestre, Wild Life Foundation, (FVSA).
Falklands’ scientists detect North Pacific Ocean species in South Atlantic
Deep sea fish species found in the North Pacific Ocean have mysteriously been caught in the southwest Atlantic in Falkland Islands waters. It is unclear how the animals, a giant rattail grenadier, pelagic eelpout and deep sea squid, travelled so far, according to a report by Matt Walker, Editor of Earth News.
