Tomorrow at Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero premises, it will commence the Annual Coordination Workshop 2016 of the coordinator commitee of the Convenio Cooperación Científica, existent between INIDEP and the Instituto de Fomento Pesquero of Chile. In two intense work days, authorities...
The development of new projects, such as algae crop, will allow the improvement of life quality from collecting fishermen; and at the same time, increase the attractiveness for investors in the sector, providing better opportunities to improve economic and social conditions in the coastal...
It is a Diatom named “Aulacodiscus cf. kitonii” which is harmless for humans and for marine organisms. Ximena Vivanco, researcher member of the noxious algae bloom and marine toxin working group of Instituto de Fomento Pesquero, Puerto Montt, said “the foam observed in recent...
Leonardo Nunez, Executive Director of IFOP explained that “Bloom affecting Los Lagos region is currently inside the outer sea between the southern extreme of Chiloe island and Los Molinos sector in the Region de Los Rios, at north of Valdivia river. Furthermore, it has...
Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs), commonly known as red tides, are natural events that occur in the aquatic environment by an increase in the population of certain microalgae and can produce harmful disorders in human being and ecosystems. These effects may result from the consumption...
The cruise will have a total duration of 30 days. The scientific ship Abate Molina of IFOP, set sailed on Friday, April 29 at 23:50 from the port of Valparaiso, with a total staff of 24 people, including researchers and crew, with the purpose...
Between April 18 and 22, at Mallorca, Spain, Francisco Cerna and Guillermo Moyano, researchers of IFOP, attended to International Workshop “Bio chronology on the growing of annual rings of otoliths in marine fish: interaction of the weather at the echo systems of North Atlantic.”...
Between April 15 and 19, 2016, the researchers Maximiliano Zilleruelo and Patricio Gálvez, both of Fisheries Evaluation Department of IFOP, participated in the “Workshop on use of best available science in developing and promoting best practices for trawl fishing operations”, international project financed by...
On Thursday, April 21, a meeting was held at fishermen trade union premises of Caleta Lo Rojas at Coronel. The Mayor of Coronel city was one of the attendants, jointly with the Environment Director and Territory Director, personnel from Dirección del Territorio Marítimo (DIRECTEMAR),...
The bloom of noxious algae (FANs) corresponds to a proliferation of microscopic algae in aquatic ambient, which can provoke the massive death of fish and a huge variety of other organisms, also they can contaminate the shellfish with toxins, and alter the echo systems,...
Valparaíso, 16/04/2016.- The Instituto de Fomento Pesquero (IFOP) is a scientific research institution of Chilean state, which advises in the decision making about marine resources, is investigating the stranding of sardines in Queule. “The stranding of fish and other organisms, such as mollusks and...
At Region del Bio Bio (Talcahuano, Caleta Tubul, San Vicente, Coronel, Coliumo), at Región de Valparaíso (San Antonio) and Región de los Ríos (Valdivia and Corral). The Instituto de Fomento Pesquero (IFOP) is developing a series of meetings with fish workers under the “Discard...
Last April 8, at IFOP Valparaíso auditorium, the Environment Department presented a “Marine Ecosystem Classification Proposal” to IFOP researchers and representatives of Fishing Undersecretary. Dr. Jaime Rovira, of Environment Department, commented about the meeting: “We presented a marine ecosystem classification proposal for the entire...
On April 4, 2016, at IFOP premises, El Niño and Weather Variability (ENVAC) work group of National Oceanographic Committee met to analyze the evolution of El Niño during 2015/16 and methodological development of the whole “Monitoring bio-oceanographic between Regions XV and II” which is...
On November 2015, after sixth consecutive years, ISO 9001 International Certification was renewed under supervision of Bureau Veritas Chile. This certification is for these processes: “Compilation, Reception, Entering, Validation, Storage and Protection of Fishing Biological Data of Fisheries, both artisanal and industrial, developed in...
