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...
The XXXI ERFEN Program Regional Scientific Committee Meeting (Protocol on the Program for the Regional Study of the El Niño Phenomenon in the Southeast Pacific – ERFEN) of the Permanent Commission of the South Pacific (CPPS) was held in the city of Santiago de Chile between on December 13th and 15th, 2022. The meeting was chaired by Juan Quintana Chilean Meteorological Directorate meteorologist ,and included delegations from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Chile, CPPS member countries. Representing our country, professionals...
During November and December, a team of IFOP professionals, led by its head of office, Alejandra Lafon, carried out various scientific activities in Puerto Melinka and Puerto Aguirre, in which they visited Melinka High School and Pedro Aguirre Cerda School in Puerto Aguirre. In them a talk and practical workshop “Red tides, what are they and how has their distribution changed? was developed. In these talks in a didactic and pleasant language, children and young people are explained about...
Between December 5th and 15th, at Universidad de los Lagos in the city of Puerto Montt, presented its research’s final evaluation “Project for monitoring methods development and a forecast system of harmful algal blooms for sustainable coastal aquaculture and fisheries in Chile”, which ends at the end of March 2023. The project aims to introduce new technologies for harmful microalgae detection using biomolecular methods, along with developing tools to forecast blooms of these organisms. This project has been possible...
Ignacio Payá, IFOP researcher, stands out after participating in an international workshop on Illex argentinus. IFOP researcher Ignacio Payá (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ignacio-Paya) participated in the first international scientific workshop on south-west Atlantic squid, Illex argentinus, (Conference: First International Scientific Workshop for the Argentine Shortfin Squid – capes) that was held in November 2022 at P. Universidad Católica de Chile Marine Research Coastal Station (http://ecim.bio.puc.cl). The workshop was organized by the Applied Ecology and Sustainability Center (CAPES) and aimed to ensure formal...
On Wednesday, December 14th, the annual workshop was held in which the Fisheries and Aquaculture Undersecretariat, the National Service of Fisheries and Aquaculture, and the Institute for Fisheries Promotion representatives coordinate research activities carried out by IFOP on aquaculture health issues. . Professionals from the three institutions participated in the instance, who learned about the most relevant aspects of Hydrobiological Health Department three programs executed by IFOP in the health field, through presentations by its respective permanent research programs...
Through being awarded a project with Biobío Regional Government funds (SAFA Project), IFOP acquired scientific acoustic system, consisting of a SIMRAD EK 80 brand echo sounder with a split beam transducer of 38 kHz frequency. This system is installed in artisanal purse seine boats to carry outresearch in order to evaluate small pelagics stock and thus to estimate recruitment periods biomass, which occurs mainly in summer and autumn of each year. Jorge Castillo, IFOP fishing engineer explained ” EK...
On November 29th and 30th, “ Strengthening Scientific Observers Team Workshop in Quellon, Chiloe was held at ACHS premises.” The activity was attended by Leonardo Caballero Sampling Management Department Head ;Héctor Huerta South Austral Zone General Coordinator and Field Coordinators, Vivian Pezo and Dagoberto Subiabre. The workshop aims to make information available to scientific observers team , valuable instances for strengthening knowledge and clarifying doubts on various topics related to their work, which included Fisheries Development Institute (IFOP)general aspects...
