Falklands Director of Natural Resources John Barton. (Photo: Mercopress)
Good loligo and rock cod catches reported
(FALKLAND ISLANDS, 8/5/2010)
The loligo and rock cod fisheries have performed well over the first seven months of 2010, although it is too early to predict the overall performance for the year, said Falkland Islands Government of Natural Resources Director John Barton.
The first loligo season was good and the second season has started strongly, bearing out the results of the survey which took place before fishing commenced.
Barton told Mercopress that catches of loligo currently stand at 38,000 tonnes for the year. Rock cod has been the other strong performer with some 50.000 tonnes being caught so far this year.
Falkland’s conservation zones used to be noted for catches of Southern blue whiting but these have declined over the period in which rock cod has become the highest volume finfish catch in the zone.
“It has reached the point now where the management of some of the finfish fisheries are based on the conservation targets for rock cod,” Barton said.
“It has been another poor year for illex with very low catches in Falklands’ zones. It is also apparent that it was a poor Illex year throughout the Southwest Atlantic with low catches also reported in Argentina and on the high seas,” he added.
Both squid fisheries (loligo – first season and illex) started in late February. The second loligo season started in mid-July.
The loligo fishery involved 16 trawlers, most of which were registered in the Falkland Islands.
Regarding the illex fishery, this year there was significantly greater interest in licences, with some 70 vessels calling to collect licences. The main fleets involved are from Korea and Taiwan.
Mercopress
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