Friday 31 March at 18:00 in Museo Fonck (4 Norte 784, Viña del Mar). The talk was “algae and its ecological role in coastal environments of Chile”. Luis Figueroa Fábrega, researcher at the Instituto de Fomento Pesquero (IFOP), invited us to learn about the...
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The sample is the microalga Heterocapsa Triquetra a dinoflagellate which is not harmful to man or to other marine organism On March 30, Sernapesca, took a water sample in the vicinity of Chacabuco Bay, within the fjord of Aysen to be analysed by professionals...
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Between March 20 and 22, at Puerto Montt city, the basic course on safety and familiarization on board was taught by OTEC Sur Terra. A total of 10 workers of IFOP participated, among scientific observers and researchers. The training had a practical theoretical modality...
On Thursday, March 23, Alessandro Lovatelli, FAO’s new Fisheries and Aquaculture officer for South America, made a formal visit to the Instituto de Fomento Pesquero jointly with the FAO expert, Roberto de Andrade. On the activity, there were present: Gabriel Yany President of the...
In Viña de Mar, the workshop “Standardization of sampling methods for Chilean bass fishery” was carried out, whose objective was to adjust the methodologies utilized to the current reality of the fishing activity. The Chilean bass fishery is mainly developed in the southern zone...
These are: “Methodological guidelines for the assessment and estimation of the abundance of the crab species (generic species), management area regime”. And “Update of biological-fishery parameters of crabs in south-central Chile”. In Chile, benthic crustaceans are represented by about 250 species. From these total,...
Approximately 250 scientists from nearly 40 countries participated in the symposium, including Australia, Germany, Portugal, Greece, Japan, France, India, Peru, Canada, China, Spain, Mexico. Between March 6 and 12 in Victoria, Canada, the international symposium “Dynamics of Small Pelagic Fish Resources” was held. From...
To spread out economic indicators and feedback for the Economic Monitoring of the National Fisheries and Aquaculture Industry Between February 28 and March 3, three professionals from the economics section of the Instituto de Fomento Pesquero; Elizabeth Palta, Camilo Torres and Andrea Araya traveled...
It was attended by professionals from the Instituto de Fomento Pesquero, Servicio Nacional de Pesca, Subsecretaría de Pesca. In Valparaiso, the workshop “Sustainability Indicators for the Benthic Resource Management and Exploitation Areas System (AMERB)” was carried out. This was organized by The Nature Conservancy...
This is the ciliate microalgae Myrionecta rubra On February 8, Francisco Calderón de Sernapesca, took a water sample at the surrounding area of Isla Capitán Aracena, Estrecho Magallanes to be analyzed by the professionals of the Instituto de Fomento Pesquero in order to identify...
On 7 and 8 March at the Diego de Almagro Hotel, experts from Chile and Argentina met to exchange knowledge of different areas (fishing, growth, reproduction, management) of the southern octopus resource Enteroctopus megalocyathus, The meeting was attended by IFOP professionals, Researchers from Universidad...
The study area considers the evaluation of the resource between Arica (18˚ 25’LS) and south of Valparaíso (33˚ 30 ‘LS); from 1 to 100 miles from the coast. A team of 25 professionals from the Instituto de Fomento Pesquero (IFOP) embarked on March 9...
In a sampling carried out between February 16 and 24 on board the OPV-83 “Marinero Fuentealba” from the Chilean Navy. The INCAR is also working on samples collected during this cruise. At the end of January 2017, mortality of thousands of salmon for fattening...
It has been possible to detect them through the monitoring activities carried out by the Instituto de Fomento Pesquero (IFOP). Southern austral fjords show an apparent increase in the frequency, geographic coverage and intensity of noxious algal blooms in the last five decades, which...

