In Guayaquil city, Ecuador, Southeast Pacific Scientific Technical Committee Regional Action Plan for Sharks, Rays and Chimaeras Conservation and Management at XVII Annual Meeting (PAR-Shark) was held between September 12th and 14th, organized by South Pacific Permanent Commission (CPPS), scientists and administrators from Colombia, Chile, Ecuador and Peru participated. The purpose of the meeting was to facilitate scientific and technical knowledge exchange, to learn about experiences from the point of view of these resources management in member countries and...
On September 15th, Dr. Jorge Mardones from Fisheries Development Institute’s Harmful Algae Studies Center (CREAN), was appointed by “Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)” of UNESCO and by “Oceanic Research Scientific Committee (SCOR)” as part of GlobalHAB Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) for 2023-2025 period. The Global Harmful Algal Bloom Program (GlobalHAB) is an international scientific program focused on harmful algal blooms (HABs). Its objective is to encourage and promote cooperative research aimed at improving the understanding and prediction of HAB events,...
On Friday, September 8th, two officials from Mozambique, Inhambane Province;Vilankulo District. Edmundo Galiza Dimande District Administrator and advisor Feliz Nbangha, visited IFOP. They were received by IFOP Executive Director, Nancy Barahona Fisheries, Evaluation Department Head, and Researcher Naití Morales. During the visit, they expressed interest in establishing cooperation links with our Institution given Vilankulo District coastal marine nature and the need to strengthen their scientific and technical capacities, which allow them greater knowledge of its biodiversity and ecosystems, for...
Within Chilean Aquaculture Environmental Performance and its Impacts on Site Ecosystems project framework, a project belonging to the Environment Department based in Puerto Montt, the last part of field activities corresponding to the area comprised of Golfo Almirante Montt, located in the Commune of Natales, Magallanes Region was carried out. On this occasion, for the first time environmental performance and oceanography project teams (project “Channels and Austral Fjords Oceanographic Processes Spatial and Temporal Variability Monitoring and Modeling”) from Putemún...
Next Thursday, September 14th, IFOP Oceanography group in Putemún, Castro (chonos.ifop.cl) will offer a new dissemination workshop titled “Patagonia Fjords and Channels Oceanography and Numerical Modeling”, with most relevant projects results and progress by Fisheries and Aquaculture Undersecretariat Performance Agreement that IFOP carries out as a state consultant on marine ecosystems sustainable development in southern Chile. The workshop presentations address various topics related to Chilean Patagonia oceanography, considering hydrodynamics and biogeochemistry of Golfo Almirante Montt de Magallanes (for more...
The researcher worked for 26 years at Fisheries Development Institute, and is the only woman who has been head of the hydroacoustic evaluation department. Chile’s new research ship will bear her name María Ángela, is doctorate in Biological Oceanography from Université de Bretagne Occidentale (France), prominent professor, researcher and fisheries engineer at Pontificia Uiversidad Catolica de Valparaiso (PUCV), has an extensive work career, she served as academic at Universidad Catolica , as an IFOP researcher , and at the...
Captain Takashi Abe is in command of the ship, and the final call is expected to be on September 21rst in Valparaíso. Abate Molina scientific vessel set sail on Saturday, September 2nd, from Valparaíso’s port, and will sail for 19 days, to investigate spawning stock of anchovy and common sardine distribution, abundance and biomass between Valparaíso Region and Los Lagos Region. This research cruise, led by Dr. Jessica Bonicelli from IFOP Oceanography and Environment Department, takes place during the...
Yesterday, Thursday, August 31rd, a sunny and beautiful day accompanied the visit of the IFOP Board of Directors to the scientific ship Abate Molina, in the Valparaíso Region, they were received by Gonzalo Pereira, IFOP’s Executive Director, Patricio Herrera, head of marine operations, Takashi Abbe, boat captain and crew. They gave them a tour of the ship and explained what each of the scientific equipment is for, they learned about the laboratories, and the spaces that the ship has...
Javiera, won a scholarship at prestigious Flanders research institute, in Blue Science and Technology Summer Training program. There were two weeks in which she participated in an international Blue Science and Technology training. The improvement addresses important (global) societal challenges from an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspective. Academic conferences were held by different international institutions’s best researchers, active in various Blue Economy fields, with seminars given by European politicians, as well as by private companies with established value in their...
With the aim of staying at the frontier of knowledge about biology, ecology and cephalopod fisheries (cuttlefish, squid and octopus), researcher Ignacio Payá from IFOP’s Resource Evaluation Department (DER), participated in ICES life history and cephalopods fisheries working group. (https://www.ices.dk/community/groups/Pages/WGCEPH.aspx ). This group, made up of a total of 56 scientists from 14 countries, met between July 3rd and 7th, 2023, at the Marine Research Institute (CSIC-IIM) in Vigo, Spain. At IFOP, Payá is in charge of evaluating cuttlefish...
Within the framework of “Evaluation of Management Strategies (EEM) for the Implementation of the Precautionary Approach in Common Hake (Merluccius gayi) in the Context of the General Law on Fisheries and Aquaculture” project, which is executed by IFOP Resource Evaluation Department , “Advanced training workshop on the use of openMSE software packages” was held. EEM implementation activities began in July with concepts and theory basic training, and openMSE software platform introduction, by a team of Canadian experts from Blue...
