Former IFOP Director Sergio Basulto Campos passed away
October 9th, 2023Sergio was Fisheries Development Institute’s Director between 1970 and 1973. In 1959 he joined Agriculture Ministry Fisheries and Hunting Development Department as counterpart to an international whaling research project. Likewise, he served for several years as secretary of the Chilean Section of the Permanent Commission of the South Pacific.
In 1965 he traveled on a scholarship to Japan, where he obtained certificates in courses on “Fisheries Propagation and Management” and “Fisheries Research.” Likewise, under his responsibility, in 1986, government work to introduce Pacific salmon, interrupted for almost forty years, was restarted.
In the period 1970-1973 he was appointed as Fisheries Development Institute’s Director.
At the end of 1973 he entered the Norwegian Marine Research Institute (Bergen), where he researched issues related to Atlantic salmon.
In 1976 he was hired by the Mozambique Republic Government to cooperate in its fishing services organization. On the other hand, in the period 1978-79 he was a member of the Marine Research Advisory Committee of United Nations General Secretariat. In 1990 he retired from FAO and returned to Chile.
His publications:
- The long journey of the salmon. A forgotten chronicle” (2003),
- Fishing news from five centuries (2014)
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