On August 1, morning time, M.V. Cabo de Hornos sat sailed from Valparaíso port for a scientific cruise, which will make research on southern hake, hoki and southern blue Whiting. The area of study includes from Guafo Island to the north of Strait of Magellan. It will run from 1 to 31 August .The goal of this expedition is to evaluate the spawning stock of southern hake, hoki and southern blue Whiting in the outer waters between Los Lagos...

Image-Pro is an image analysis program, which has the section Age and Growth of Instituto de Fomento Pesquero, and thanks to this program, different activities and research projects have been carried out. In Talcahuano, training was developed for the use of Image-Pro analysis software, which currently offers the best options for work at scientific level. With this, it is possible to develop different studies based on high-resolution digital images. An image analysis system consists of a microscope or stereo...

The study extends across the area between northern Totoralillo in the region of Coquimbo, to the north of Ancud in the Region de Los Lagos. The scientific ship Abate Molina, of Instituto de Fomento Pesquero (IFOP) sailed at 12 hours, of Monday July 25, from the port of Valparaiso, intended to the Coquimbo Region, with a total staff of 29 people, to start a new scientific expedition, whose overall objective is to evaluate the stock of hake through the...

Between July and August, IFOP will continue with the training which has been given to its workers since 2006, in the Data Management System Quality ISO 9001. The activity is designed to the headquarters, scientifics, technicals and administrative staff of the Regional Headquarters of Iquique, Coquimbo, Valparaiso, San Antonio, Talcahuano and Calbuco. Oscar Guzman, representative of ISO 9001, Head at IFOP and speaker of the training, referred to the objective of the training as “to inform workers on the...

Eliana Escudero, Head of IFOP Iquique, said “is a first step, to raise awareness on environmental preservation, closely linked with our work, as an institute dedicated to the conservation of species through research, and finally a lot of trash and plastic came into the ocean. Some time ago, we are vacating spaces from materials out of use, accumulated over the years and thus, the idea of recycling was born, to cooperate with the preservation of the environment, we started...

This is new pioneering software just launched in the world. Chile is one of the top five countries using this program; this is why FAO is very interested about the utilization progress of the program in our country. At Campus Huayquique, of Universidad Arturo Prat in Iquique, CITES training course on Identification shark fins of iSharkFin program was carried out; this was organized by CITES Chile and the Sharks Working Group of technical-scientific committee of Subsecretaría de Pesca. Patricio...

The mobulas are giant rays and the inclusion of these species into Appendix II to CITES (Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora considering) is being considered. In Iquique, the sharks working group hold a meeting. This is part of IFOP project “logistical support for the development and management of regional action plans and programs of aquatic species conservation and adaptation to climate change in fisheries and aquaculture” The purpose of this meeting is...

Initiative of Chilean researchers to share scientific information and complement efforts to monitor the ocean begins to happen On Wednesday 6 July, at IFOP Valparaiso, renowned scientists from national universities and researchers of Instituto de Fomento Pesquero met together to discuss the way in which the different institutions can complement their efforts in data collection as part of a national ocean monitoring program, as well as to analyze the best way to share oceanographic and meteorological information between institutions...

The importance of the course is that this type of software is a tool that has proven to be very useful for modeling different processes (physical and biogeochemical) in diverse aquatic systems (hydrographic watersheds and estuaries) at different scales. During the days June 27 to July 1, Drs. Pablo Rojas, Gemita Pizarro and the oceanographer Ursula Cifuentes participated in the International Course: “Analysis of biogeochemical interactions in marine and continental environments with MOHID software“. The course was organized by...

EnIn Valparaíso, an expert panel was carried out about climatic change, which is part of the project of IFOP “logistical support for the development and management of regional action plans and programs of aquatic species conservation and adaptation to climate change in fisheries and aquaculture.” During the activity, the following were the exponents: Dr. Samuel Hormazábal, Director of the School of Marine Sciences of Universidad Católica, Dr. Leonardo Guzman, Chief of the Division of Aquaculture Research of IFOP, Dr....

The project is critical for the process of accreditation of the lobster fishery, the data collection and generation of knowledge of fisheries, resources and ecosystems of Alejandro Selkirk Island, Robinson Crusoe island, Santa Clara island and Desventuradas islands. The IFOP jointly with University of Concepcion, are conducting the project “Monitoring of Crustacean Fisheries of Archipelago Juan Fernandez, 2016.” It is being financed by the Undersecretary of Economy and EMT, through the agreement ASIPA 2016. The project manager and technical...

On May and June, the Championship of Futsal “Copa Mes del Mar 2016” was carried out, being this year organized by IFOP. The tournament takes place from 7 years ago and brings together some institutions and workers who are linked to the sea and maritime-port activity. This year, the 8 participating teams are: Subsecretaría de Pesca (SUBPESCA), Servicio Nacional de Pesca (SERNAPESCA NACIONAL and SERNAPESCA REGIONAL), Servicio Hidrográfico y Oceanográfico de la Armada (SHOA), Agencias Rossi (ROSSI), Sudamericana Agencias...

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 the guidelines to follow for research and conservation actions of these species in Chile. Dr. Patricia Zarate, IFOP researcher and president of the group said “the aim of this meeting is the development of the...

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, on June “Abate Molina” must be subjected to standard hull and Docking Survey and Propeller Shaff survey inspections. While in docking, cleaning jobs, high-pressure washing and hull sand blasting, application of special paints (Epoxic scheme-...

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 charge of carrying out studies of our fisheries resources. Students have been watching presentations on plankton, age and growth of the species and the way studies of resources are carried out, in order to calculate...