On July 24th , Abate Molina scientific vessel sailed from Valparaíso port, to evaluate common hake stock, through hydroacoustic method, between Coquimbo region northern limit and Los Lagos region. The scientific expedition will last 43 days, between July 24th and September 4th. Esteban Molina is the cruise master and the ship’s captain is Enrique Quiero, leaving with a 28 people crew , including researchers and crew. Specific cruise objectives are: To estimate hake stock size and its spatial distribution...

The construction of a modern vessel, which would replace Abate Molina, will boost marine science and oceanography development. On Wednesday, July 18th, and in record time, Senate plenary session supported the bill by means of which the President of the Republic is requested to provide necessary resources for the construction of a fishing and oceanographic research vessel. In this regard Luis Parot, (IFOP) Fisheries Development Institute Executive Director, said “there is a need to strengthen Chilean institutional and research...

Maritime Interests comission senators, Upper House Fisheries and Aquaculture Committee met on Wednesday, aboard Abate Molina scientific vessel, to learn about their in situ work. Source: Canal 13

Maritime Interests comission senators, Upper House Fisheries and Aquaculture Committee met on Wednesday, aboard Abate Molina scientific vessel, to learn about their in situ work. The 28 years old vessel, which is fully operational, conducts marine resources research, which are essential for scientific committees of Subpesca work and vital in decision processes adopted according to their authorities outreach. The ship was donated to Chile by Japan, it belongs to Fisheries and Aquaculture Undersecretariat and is operated by Fisheries Development...

Úrsula Cifuentes and Jessica Bonicelli, held talks and experiments to explain to students physical processes that occur in the ocean  On July 4th , Fisheries Development Institute (IFOP) Oceanography and Environment Department (DOMA) , participated in the scientific fair at “Niño Jesús de Praga” school in Quillota, where students, professors, researchers and school representatives. Two researchers from DOMA, Úrsula Cifuentes and Jessica Bonicelli, explained physical processes that occur in the ocean through home experiments. “One of the experiments was...

On Thursday, June 28TH , “2017 Bio-oceanographic conditions and Evaluation of anchovy spawning stock between the XV and II Regions“, ASIPA projects workshop results was held at Valparaíso Fisheries Development Institute (IFOP) auditorium, and” 2017 Evaluation of anchovy spawning stock between III and IV Regions“, developed during this resource maximum reproductive activity period in 2017. In the workshop, the most relevant results from both projects were jointly exposed and discussed in an integrated way. The meeting was attended by...

Financed by Aysén Regional Government it aims to identify new benthic resource banks and increase information access frequency associated with marine biotoxins in seafood presence or absence, at Program of Management and Monitoring of Red Tide current monitoring stations. At the end of June, Aysén Regional Government, through Productive Development, Science, Technology and Innovation Commissions, convened (IFOP) Fisheries Development Institute to show progress status of Monitoring Improvement of Harmful Algal Blooms Transfer Program. (FANs) at Aysén Region . This...

This activity aim was to sensitize and train people in the area regarding effects and the need to incorporate adaptation measures to management of fisheries and aquaculture phenomenon. More than 50 representatives from fisheries management committees, scientific committees, salmon farmers, mussel farmers, artisanal fisheries and small-scale aquaculture, as well as public services related to the area met yesterday at Hotel Diego de Almagro, in Valparaíso, at a seminar organized by Fisheries and Aquaculture Undersecretariat to internalize them regarding weather...

Argentina and Chile strengthen and promote scientific links in INIDEP Coordinating Committee of the Scientific Cooperation Agreement between the National Fisheries Research and Development Institute of Argentina and the Fishing Development Institute of Chile IV Annual Coordination Workshop 2018 is being held. From June 25th to 27th at INIDEP facilities, a new meeting between institutions was held, thanks to the Framework Agreement signed on July 8th , 2014 and whose general objective is to formalize cooperation relations among both...

On Wednesday, June 20th , at IFOP auditorium in Valparaíso, a dissemination workshop was held on fisheries monitoring program under 2017 management areas. Results of Fisheries Development Institute developed at AMERB studies were delivered. AMERB are Bentonic Resources Management and Exploitation Areas , is a fishery management measure that assigns exclusive rights of use and exploitation of benthic resources (invertebrates and algae) to organizations of artisanal fishermen (OPA) legally constituted, who must report AMERB performance to the Undersecretariat of...

Fisheries Development Institute invites to this Workshop to show: “Surveillance of pathogens resistance that affect national salmon industry to the commonly used antimicrobials (Stage IV)”, Program results. Which will take place on Tuesday June 26th , 2018,at “Austral room” of Hotel Gran Pacífico, from 10:00, until 1:00 p.m. The program is financed by the Economy Ministry, which is actively participating in its development as a technical counterpart of Fisheries and Aquaculture Undersecretariat . Counting, in addition, with National Fisheries...

Ichthyology is a branch of science dedicated to fish study. On June 13TH , Antonio Aranis, IFOP researcher in charge of Fisheries Assessment Department Center-South Monitoring Program, presented the study “Criteria for estimating the reference size at Ibero-American International Ictilogy Congress (SIBIC) in Portugal. in juveniles of Common Sardine (Strangomera bentincki) of Chile‘s south central zone“, this work corresponds to a commissioned Scientific Committee and  SUBPESCA investigation that was carried out by researchers Karen Walker, Javier Contreras and Antonio...

The signed agreement establishes collaboration between both entities for four years Fisheries Development Institute (IFOP) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) conservation NGO, signed on June 15th , 2018 a collaboration agreement which promotes joint research activities to advance towards Chilean coast fisheries sustainability and contribute to the country’s marine ecosystem protection. The four-year agreement will develop and expand tools to improve monitoring, monitoring and evaluation programs of main Chilean fisheries, which is IFOP´s main purpose. The agreement will also...

The Nature Conservancy (TNC) global team is a partner NGO of Fisheries Promotion Institute (IFOP), invited two researchers from the institution, María Cristina Pérez, marine biologist and master in fisheries and Mauricio Ibarra, fishing engineer and master in statistics, they participated in “Data-limited Stock Assessment” technical training course (limited data), given on June 4th and 5th in Arlington city, United States, by Dr. Jason Cope, NOAA’s researcher and Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle. María Cristina, told us ”...

The bird traveled 9350 km and has been traveling almost 9 years A black-browed albatross (Thalassarche melanophris) marked on March 6, 2009 on Windsor Bay slopes, Mcquarie Island south of Tasmania (Australia), when it was a chick, by biologist Julie MacInnes of the University of Hobart (Tasmania, Australia) with Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service support and registered by Australian Bird & Bat Banding Scheme (ABBBS) jointly with Tasmania’s Parks, Water and Environment Department of Primary Industries Marine Conservation Program...