The 6th meeting of the National Marine Turtle Specialist Group was held in Vina del Mar. This time experts on sea turtle of Chile had as main objective to design a National Action Plan for the Protection and Conservation of Sea Turtles that considers...
On June 21, the vessel “Abate Molina” enter floating dock “Gutierrez” in ASMAR Talcahuano, the docking flooding maneuvers began at 08:00 hours and at 11:30 hours, the ship was completely stranded. According to Maintenance Plan and requirements of Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (NKK) Classification society,...
A group of students of Marine Biology of the University of Valparaiso, visited Instituto de Fomento Pesquero, accompanied by academician of this university, Fernando Balbontín. Professor Balbontín explained the purpose of the activity: “We have visited IFOP mainly, because it is the one in...
Between May 26 and 28, in the School Victor Segalen of University of Western Brittany, Brest, France, the course “Methods of Social Sciences for researchers of natural Sciences” was held. “The aim of the course is to learn techniques that can be used in...
CONANP coordinates national efforts to preserve the specie, through the Program of Action for Conservation. Under the International Day of the Sea Turtle and the 50 years of the National Program for the Conservation of Sea Turtles in Mexico, the National Commission of Natural...
With a ceremony held at the Cousino building in the city of Valparaiso, the Undersecretary of Fisheries and Aquaculture, jointly with Instituto de Fomento Pesquero celebrated the quarter century of research vessel “Abate Molina,” ship that arrived to our country in 1991 after being...
Ignacio Payá, IFOP researcher, participated as an FAO expert in workshop on orange roughy conducted between 7 and 9 June in the city of Auckland in New Zealand. The workshop is part of FAO ABNJ project, which is oriented to fisheries in areas beyond...
Address- Magallanes: In Punta Arenas, at Contraloría Regional auditorium, a Seminarium was carried out by IFOP, with the purpose of bringing scientific research in the area of fishing and aquaculture closer to the community. The following people were present during the activity: Oscar Ortiz,...
On June 7, in the auditorium of IFOP Valparaiso, workshop of catch and landing of pelagic sharks statistics was carried out. During the activity were present the following people: Chilean Customs, Undersecretary of Fishing, Servicio Nacional de Pesca, Instituto de Fomento Pesquero. The objective...
On 10 June, at the ice rink of Southern Zone, a diffusion exhibition of the projects being carried out by IFOP was carried out. Subsecretaría de Pesca and Servicio Nacional de Pesca also participated in the exhibition. During the opening there were present the...
Last Friday, June 3 at 24:00 hours, with a total staff of 23 people, among the crew and researchers, the scientific vessel “Abate Molina” of IFOP set sailed from Valparaiso port, for the cruise “Direct evaluation of cuttlefish at central south region, a methodological...
On May, the Instituto de Fomento Pesquero jointly with Explora Project Quinta Region held a series of speeches at schools in Valparaiso region and Talcahuano. The activity is part of the 52nd anniversary of IFOP and the month of the sea, and its objective...
On Wednesday 1, at Instituto de Fomento Pesquero premises, a meeting was held with Ecuador Vice-minister of Aquiculture and Fishing and a professional team of IFOP. During the evening, the vice-minister was invited to step through the scientific vessel Abate Molina. Pilar Proaño referred...
The Instituto de Fomento Pesquero, IFOP, was created on 1964 by Corporación de Fomento de la Producción (CORFO) and Sociedad Nacional de Pesca, by means of an international technical assistance project in fishing issues between United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Food and Agriculture...
On Monday 23, opening ceremony of Instituto Milenio de Oceanografía was held at Art Gallery of Universidad de Concepción. This institution has the mission of carrying out oceanographic research, deal with scientific problems in a collaborative manner, develop new technologies for the observation work...
