On Friday, November 3rd and Saturday, November 4th, at Valparaíso’s Ex-jail Cultural Center, Acción Azul Oceanic Festival was held, an NGO dedicated to oceanic culture protection and dissemination. Fisheries Development Institute was part of the activity, with an interactive stand and Gonzalo Pereira Puchy...
On Friday, November 3rd, Ann Katrien, in charge of Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) international cooperation, visited Abate Molina scientific vessel, in Valparaíso, and was received by IFOP’s Director, Gonzalo Pereira Puchy, by José Echeverría vessel’s Captain, they gave him a ship’s tour and explained...
Its objective was international knowledge exchange about El Niño phenomenon and climatic change. Between October 30th and November 3rd, an IFOP delegation made up of doctors Jaime Letelier and Gastón Vidal together with oceanographer Hernán Reyes participated in an oceanographic cruise aboard Carrasco ship,...
On November 6th, Gonzalo Pereira, Fisheries Development Institute Executive Director, visited the Peruvian Sea Institute (IMARPE), in Callao, Peru. He met with its Scientific Executive Director, Renato Guevara. At the meeting, they discussed SAPO EDF initiative support and its strengthening’s importance in El Niño...
In a collaboration to face environmental challenges, Plaza Colón emerged as activities committed to climate awareness epicenter. Last October 24rth. Seremi de Medio Ambiente (Enviroment Ministerial Secretariat) organized an event that brought together various government and private entities with the purpose of raising community...
Doctors Javier Paredes and Jorge Mardones were invited as plenary speakers to the International PICES conference that took place between October 20th and 27th, 2023 in Seattle, United States. Researchers presented two talks: the first talk titled “Patagonian fjords dealing with extreme Harmful Algal...
Between October 16th and 20th, 2023, Dr. Carlos Montenegro Silva, IFOP Fisheries Research Division Head, participated as a member of the Chilean delegation in CCAMLR 42nd Scientific Committee meeting ( Antarctic Marine Living Resources Conservation Commission), which was held in Hobart, Australia. The Antarctic...
During October, researchers, coordinators, and scientific observers of the Monitoring Program for main benthic fisheries and Larval Monitoring Program for mytilids carried out various dissemination actions, among which stand out; workshops participation, radio interviews, talks at schools in the area and negotiations with local...
On October 23rd, students from Liceo Bicentenario de Valparaíso toured IFOP’s facilities, were received by researchers from Fisheries Development Institute and were shown scientific work carried out in the various laboratories that the institution has. The tour included the Otolith laboratory, where young people...
Fisheries economics researcher Camilo Torres Almuna, MSc. (Economy Section), participated in the Economics of Natural Resources and the Environment Ninth Annual Research Meeting, held between October 19th and 20th in hybrid format, the event was organized by Environment for Development (EfD), https://sites.google.com/view/nenre-efdchile/workshop-2023. The purpose...
For the second consecutive year, the researcher from the IFOP Resource Assessment Department, Ignacio Payá, acted as spokesperson for the Chilean delegation at the XI meeting of the Scientific Committee (SC) of the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Organization (OROP-PS) . The meeting took place...
On September 26th, the first course, of several that will be developed, on animal biodiversity and biological collections was held at the Coquimbo headquarters by professional Catalina Merino Yunnissi, Collections Administrator, Invertebrate Zoology Area of the National Museum of History Natural. This course was...
It is a Silent Boat (ICES 209 standard, Silent-R) to not disturb fish’s behavior when prospected, avoiding escape when the boat passes, improving biomass estimates. On October 12th, at ASENAV shipyard in Valdivia, fishing and oceanographic research vessel Dra. Barbieri’s baptism and launch took...
The Humboldt Current Warning, Forecast and Observation System (SAPO Chile) is being presented at the 7th version Otoliths International Congress to be held in Viña del Mar. More than 170 researchers from 41 countries are participating in this congress, which among its Thematic themes...
Yesterday, October 9th, in Viña del Mar with regional authorities assistance, the 7th International Otolith Congress was inaugurated, which for the first time was held in Chile, with 41 countries participating with 170 exhibitors. Hernán Ramírez, Valparaíso region’s Environment Seremi, expressed “I want to...
