Between November 20 and 22, the “Southeast Pacific Meeting: Committed to a Sustainable Ocean” took place in Panama City. This event was organized within the context of the “Save the Blue Five” project, funded by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV) through the International Climate Initiative (IKI) and implemented by the Permanent Commission for the South Pacific (CPPS), the German Development Cooperation (GIZ), Conservation International (CI) and MarViva (MV). The...
The 25th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Culture and Conservation: Fishing for Change was held in Perth, Australia, from November 9 to 15. This event is the most important in the field and brought together more than 1,400 researchers from 73 countries. Among the various topics discussed at the conference, the problem of the interaction of marine mammals with fisheries around the world was one of the most relevant. Senior researcher from IFOP, Marcelo San Martín,...
The VI Ibero-American Symposium on Reproductive Ecology, Recruitment and Fisheries (SIBICORP) was held in the city of Lisbon, Portugal from November 11 to 15, 2024. A national delegation made up of eight researchers from both Chilean universities and the Fisheries Development Institute participated in this meeting. In this regard, IFOP’s participation was made up of researcher Carolina Hernández-Santoro with a presentation entitled: Changes in the reproductive tactics of the anchovy (Engraulis ringens) Compensation or adaptation to environmental variability? And...
During November, the Regional Outreach Meeting of the PAR EXPLORA Coquimbo project, executed by CAZALAC, was held at the La Serena Coliseum. More than 300 students from all over the Coquimbo Region met and the presentation of the work carried out by various groups of students aged 10-16 years on research and innovation topics in the Coquimbo region was held. One of the works that stands out among the presentations was guided as Scientific Advisor by the researcher from...
Macarena Herrera Abaroa, researcher of the Larval Monitoring of Mussels of the Aquaculture Division of the Fisheries Development Institute (IFOP), was invited to the 2nd Scientific Workshop of the Learning Platform on Mussel Farming of the Millennium Institute in Coastal Socio-Ecology (SECOS). The event took place from October 23 to 25, 2024 in Valle Las Trancas, Ñuble Region. The workshop focused on three socio-ecological systems, among which the Mollusk Aquaculture platform stood out. IFOP’s participation in this space reinforces...
On Friday, November 15, 2024, authorities and professionals from the Fisheries Development Institute (IFOP), the Undersecretariat of Fisheries and Aquaculture (SSPA), the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of the Environment participated in a visit to the Dra. Barbieri B/C. During the activity, which also included the presence of Dr. María Ángela Barbieri, the preliminary results of the project “Direct evaluation of yellow shrimp, red shrimp and nylon shrimp between the Atacama and Biobío regions, 2024” were presented, led...
On November 15, a group of professionals from the Putemún (Castro) research center of the Fisheries Development Institute, carried out a scientific dissemination activity at the “Ichuac” Rural School, an educational establishment dependent on the Municipal Education Corporation of Puqueldón, which provides education from Pre-school to 8th grade, located in the rural sector of Ichuac, commune of Puqueldón, Chiloé Province, Los Lagos Region. Around 25 students from 5th to 8th grade, accompanied by teacher Cristian Vásquez, natural sciences teacher...
On November 18, the scientific vessel Abate Molina set sail from the Port of Valparaíso, with professionals and technicians from the Institute for Fisheries Development, who will sail for 29 days investigating the anchovy. The captain of the ship is José Echeverría and the head of the cruise is the fisheries engineer Francisco Leiva. The general objective of the cruise is to carry out a hydroacoustic survey between the regions of Arica and Parinacota and Antofagasta to evaluate the...
On November 12, in the Hall of Honor of the Central House of the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso (PUCV), located at Av. Brasil 2950, Valparaíso, the II International Seminar: “Management of Fisheries and Aquaculture with an Ecosystemic Approach in Times of Climate Change: Advances, Challenges and Actions”, SIMPAEE2, was inaugurated. The event was attended by local and national authorities and prominent personalities from the fishing and aquaculture sector, and took place over three days in both in-person and...
During the month of October, various activities were carried out aimed at promoting small-scale aquaculture (SSA) and the underlying scientific disciplines and technologies among students, fishermen and the general community. On October 9, and at the request of the municipality of Quemchi, Dr. Francisco Cárcamo traveled to Tac Island to be part of the Artisanal Fishing Seminar – Voices of the Ocean, with the participation of artisanal fishermen and shore collectors from this island, presenting the presentation “SSA and...
The project is executed by IFOP and IMIPAS institutes, and incorporates the principles of gender equality, inclusion, aquaculture-fisheries technology training, and climate change. Santiago, October 30, 2024.- The Fisheries Development Institute (IFOP) together with the Mexican Institute for Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture Research (IMIPAS) began, this second semester, the execution of a cooperation project that aims to develop co-management processes for small-scale fisheries, with an emphasis on benthic resources on Chiloé Island, Ancud Bay, in southern Chile; and in...
Between October 14 and 18, 2024, the 43rd meeting of the Scientific Committee of the CCAMLR (Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources) was held in Hobart, Australia. Dr. Carlos Montenegro Silva, Head of the Fisheries Research Division of IFOP, attended this meeting as a representative of IFOP. The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources is an intergovernmental organization established by an international convention within the framework of the Antarctic Treaty System. The Commission,...
Highlighting its commitment to innovation and collaboration in research and culture On October 24, between 8:30 and 13:00, IFOP participated with a stand at the FECI Science Festival, within the framework of the XX Regional Congress of School Research and Innovation Explora Los Lagos. FECI is a massive scientific dissemination event, with significant participation from school communities. “The Science Festival is a national, public and free event, organized since 2019 by the Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation...
On October 24 and 25, the Tenth Annual NENRE EFD-Chile Meeting was held at the Colchagua Campus of the University of Talca, Santa Cruz, a conference focused on Environmental and Natural Resources Economics. Researchers from the Fisheries Development Institute (IFOP), Andrea Araya and Pedro Romero, participated in this event. Researcher Andrea Araya presented progress on her master’s thesis entitled “Searching for a relationship between biomass and the capture of black snail in the Atacama Region,” which analyzes the causal...
Yesterday, November 5th, in Puerto Varas, with the assistance of regional authorities, the ISSESR7 International Symposium was inaugurated. It is being held in Chile for the first time. 70 exhibitors are participating. This symposium focuses on the dissemination and transfer of the sciences of stock improvement, restocking and conservation assisted by aquaculture to improve the sustainability of the marine economy. In its seventh, and at the same time, first version in Latin America, it addresses with special emphasis on...
