On March 15th and 17th, the fifth Network of Institutions meeting will be held at “José Benito Vives de Andreis” Marine and Coastal Research Institute (INVEMAR)headquarters, in Santa Marta city, Colombia. Pacific Alliance Fisheries and Aquaculture Research Networks (IIPA-AP Network). The IIPA Network was born in 2017 in the Work Plan context established that year by the Ad hoc group on Pacific Alliance Fisheries and Aquaculture whose creation was agreed at the XI Pacific Alliance Summit in July 2016,...
And advised the Chilean delegation in setting jack mackerel catch quota for 2023 Ignacio Payá, in charge of horse mackerel stock evaluation at IFOP and member of the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization Scientific Committee (OROP-PS, www.sprfmo.int), participated in Management Strategy Evaluation workshop (EEM) of horse mackerel carried out in Ecuador during February 2023. Now that SPRFMO has been successful in its strategy for jack mackerel stock recovery it is proposed to identify the best management strategy through...
On February 10th, the 3rd version of “La Ruta de La Palometa” Festival was held staritg to be consolidated in an appreciated panorama by Arica’s community and tourists who happen to visit the Arica and Parinacota’s region on these dates. This activity, aims to disseminate Palometa’s fishing resource importance and to promote fish and shellfish consumption, this year had an exponential audience increase. After a couple of years of recess, due to pandemic’s health contingency, visitors were once again...
“Taxidermy Techniques in Fish and Crustaceans” theoretical-practical course was carried out at Fisheries Development Institute (IFOP)laboratories it aimed at observers and researchers from Arica’s Regional Headquarters. The training was in charge of Richard Alanoca Peruvian taxidermist, and lasted 24 chronological hours. The classes began with an introduction to taxidermy’s history and described different currently used techniques to stuff animals and keep them looking alive. Subsequently, during the practical sessions, workers, guided by the taxidermist, were able to apply acquired...
Today, February 13th, Abate Molina scientific vessel set sail from Valparaíso’s port to evaluate anchovy stock between e Atacama and Coquimbo regions. The cruise’s head is Francisco Leiva and the vessel’s captain is José Echeverría, together with IFOP professionals and technicians and for 27 days they will work to find out the status of the anchovy. The Cruise’s specific objectives are: To carry out 44 acoustic transects between 25º00’S parallel (Paposo roadstead), in Antofagasta region, up to the 32º...
Specialists in harmful algae blooms from Fisheries Development Institute (IFOP) and the Center for Harmful Algae Studies (CREAN) of this Institute, Dr. Oscar Espinoza González and Dr. Leonardo Guzmán Méndez, have deemed it necessary to extend this statement, given the worrying news on the matter, which have recently appeared in the national media. So far in 2023, provided data by two monitoring programs for Harmful Algal Blooms (FAN) and marine toxins developed by IFOP through CREAN, contrary to what...
Between January 16th and 18th 2023, the First Climatic Change Congress was held at Universidad de Playa Ancha. This regional initiative had the support of Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa María, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Universidad de Playa Ancha and the Universidad de Valparaíso grouped in the Valparaíso’s Rectors Council (CRUV) (consejoderectoresvalparaiso.cl). CRUV Universities rectors , Science and Techology Ministerial Secretariat from Central Macrozone Dr. Jorge Soto and a representative of Environmental Ministerial Secretariat Chilean Navy and National Research...
Between May and December 2022 CREAN-IFOP researchers Oscar Espinoza G., and Pamela Carbonell A. worked with 1st to 6th grade children from of Pichicolo Rural School located in Hualaihue, in order to compile the sea importance for their community, and thus, reflecting this relationship in drawings that were integrated into a calendar made up with coastal communities of Illa de Arousa, Galicia-Spain and Pomo Indians Kashaya Band, California, and whose edition has been led since its inception by tMarine...
IFOP and MACh Project experts will analyze this natural phenomenon in a discussion mode. Understanding how algal blooms phenomena is produced in the waters, how they affect aquaculture activity and human life and how this will be some of the keys to analyze in next Puerto Montt Scientific Café called “Red Tides talk“, which will take place held next Thursday, January 19th at 7:00 p.m. at the Toco Madera Restaurant. In the opportunity, 3 experts in the area will...
Yael Cisternas became the first female IFOP scientific observer to embark on a factory ship for 51 days. This southern demersal fishery also takes place in the rough seas of the southern part of our country, which becomes an extra challenge to develop scientific work. This event marks a precedent in the field work on board, directed by sampling management department, and confirms, at the same time, that gender roles can be diversified, and thus integrate more female observers...
Today, January 6th. Abate Molina scientific vessel set sail from Valparaíso’s port to characterize and evaluate common sardine and anchovy resources stock of present between Valparaíso and Los Lagos regions using hydroacoustic methods, during peak recruitment and in immediate fall period. On this scientific journey, as Abate’s captain is José Echeverría and as head of the cruise is Álvaro Saavedra, fishing engineer. Specific objectives are: To estimate common anchovy and sardine resources stock size and their spatial distribution in...
On December 28th a group of Crew School students accompanied by a teacher, visited Fisheries Development Institute’s Abate Molina scientific vessel. On the occasion, the students and the teacher were received by Gonzalo Pereira Puchy IFOP Executive Director, boat’s captain , crew and researchers who explained them how each ship’s equipment work. The Abate’s tour was very interesting and entertaining for the students since, in a didactic way, the professionals answered all the questions asked by the youngsters. They...
Students will be able to carry out their professional internship on Abate Molina scientific vessel. On December 27th, in Valparaíso, a collaboration agreement was signed between Fisheries Development Institute (IFOP) and Valparaíso’s Crew and Port School. Through which students of Crew members School’s middle-level technical careers will be able to carry out their practical internships; Crew members of merchant and special ships, administration mention logistics and port operation, in IFOP considered the most prestigious institution dedicated to fishing and...
The Oceanography and Environment Department has been developing since 2021, under CORFO auspices an historical biological samples digitalization program called “Plankton Digital Library“. Since the 1970s, the Oceanography and Environment Department has accumulated more than 30,000 jars with zooplankton samples from the ocean throughout the Chilean Exclusive Economic Zone, always looking for distribution and abundance of larvae and eggs of organisms that support national fisheries. At the same time, these samples contain the entire zooplankton community that accompany them....
The oceanography team from Fisheries Development Institute,environment department carried out an oceanographic cruise in Almirante Montt Gulf and surrounding channels. It took place between November 7th and 22nd and included researchers Patricio Salas, Javier Cortés, Miguel Vergara and Marcela Toro participation , all from Putemún Research Center in Castro. This activity is carried out within “Monitoring and Modeling of Spatial and Temporal Variability of Oceanographic Processes in Channels and Southern Fjords” project’s framework and is part of the permanent...
