Prodesur SA is responsible for the "Tai-An" vessel, which was reported for illegal fishing

The Government of Argentina, through the Undersecretariat of Fisheries, confirmed a fine of more than 56 million pesos (60,300 euros) to the company Prodesur S.A., responsible for the "Tai-An" vessel, after the "historic confiscation" of nearly 139 tons of illegally caught toothfish, a commodity worth 2.5 billion pesos (more than 2.6 million euros).

Several companies reported that the vessel was illegally capturing toothfish.

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The project considers the progressive installation of oceanographic buoys in each of the salmon concession groups.

At AquaSur, the largest aquaculture fair in the southern hemisphere, the Instituto de Fomento Pesquero

(IFOP), together with the Undersecretary of Fisheries and Aquaculture (Subpesca), presented the Oceanographic and Environmental Data Center program in the southern austral zone of Chile.

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A row is brewing over plans for a new post-smolt facility in the north of Norway – which will involve blowing up two small islands to make space for the construction.

The company behind the project is Gaia Salmon, which plans to produce between 8,000 and 10,000 tonnes of post-smolts weighing up to 800 grams annually, once the building is operational.

The site is at the Ross Islands at Traena in Nordland, where there are more than 477 very small islands. Gaia Salmon says the area involved covers about  12 to 14 football pitches in area.

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In a bid to establish the tuna farming industry in the Philippines, an international research organisation has collected juvenile wild mackerel tuna with the aim of producing a captive-bred population.

As part of continued efforts to establish a tuna farming industry in the Philippines, the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC/AQD) has captured 17 wild mackerel tuna to be used as broodstock.

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The planned volume of fish catch in Russia by 2030 will be 6 million tons; last year it exceeded 5.3 million, which is already a record for the last 30 years, according to the head of the Federal Fisheries Agency, Ilya Shestakov, speaking recently at the International Exhibition and Forum “Russia”.

In addition, by 2030, according to the development strategy, the structure of fish production will also change: the share of deep processing of catches in the total volume should increase to 50%. 

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The approval of the EU Nature Restoration Law, one of the most controversial initiatives of the European Commission due to its impact on fishing activity given the objectives it sets to preserve the marine environment, has been blocked after Hungary's decision to join the group of seven critical countries (Finland, Sweden, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Belgium and Italy) and thus avoid a majority for the regulations to go ahead.

This law was included on the agenda by the Belgian Government, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the EU, with the aim of showing the positions of each of the Member States.

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Sales and billing have fallen by a third in one of the worst campaigns in memory

Since Daniel Formoso has been the chief patron of Muros—and for two decades now—the professionals of his estuary have always opted for a two-month ban on octopus. They would like it to be a biological strike, which entails compensation to professionals for mandatory mooring, but they do not doubt that "they must be given rest", with or without subsidy.

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