The project is financed by the Chile-Mexico Fund and is executed by public institutes IFOP and IMIPAS, which incorporates the principles of gender equality, inclusion, aquaculture-fisheries technology training, and climate change. Santiago, December 11, 2024.- A total of 17 people from the Fisheries Development...
On December 10 and 11, 2024, at the IFOP headquarters in Valparaíso, the Workshop “Zooplankton Digitization in Latin America: A New Look at 60 Years of Zooplankton in Chile in the Context of Climate Change” was held within the framework of the CORFO goal...
On December 10, at IFOP headquarters in Valparaíso, the activity Letters that investigate, the power of scientific literature, was held as part of the celebration of IFOP’s 60th anniversary. During the ceremony, the generous donations of collections exceeding 100 titles on whales, contributed by...
The IX National Aquaculture Congress “AcuiCoquimbo 2024: Cultivating the development of the territory”, took place at the Guayacán Campus of the Catholic University of the North between November 27 and 29, 2024. The closing ceremony commemorated the National Aquaculture Day, highlighting the importance of...
On December 4 and 5, a training course on diagnostic techniques and recognition of species of the Macrouridae family was held at the IFOP base in San Antonio. The course was attended by scientific observers from the demersal crustacean monitoring project and the National...
On November 22, a series of educational talks were held in the town of Quellón, Chiloé Province, within the framework of the benthic dissemination plan, organized by the Sampling Management Department (DGM) of the Fisheries Research Division of the Fisheries Development Institute (IFOP). The...
The Institute for Fisheries Development (IFOP) participated in the international linkage project led by researchers from the University of O’Higgins (UOH) and in collaboration with the Université de Caen (UNICAEN) in France, focused on the study of the response of bivalve mollusks to various...
Between September and December 2024, researchers from the Age and Growth Section have participated in the training course “Use of otolith chemistry in fish ecology: theory and practice” taught by Dr. Edwin Niklitschek, professor at the University of Los Lagos and researcher at the...
Continuing with the professional exchange between the Institute for Fisheries Development (IFOP) and the Peruvian Institute of the Sea (IMARPE), the acoustic researcher Gustavo Cuadros of IMARPE participated in the first part of the anchovy hydroacoustic evaluation cruise, being on board the scientific vessel...
Between October 28 and November 1, 2024, the Fisheries Development Institute (IFOP) conducted a technological tour to Norway with the purpose of seeking benchmarks and development models in research institutes and universities in that country in the field of infrastructure, technology and human capital...
Between November 20 and 22, the “Southeast Pacific Meeting: Committed to a Sustainable Ocean” took place in Panama City. This event was organized within the context of the “Save the Blue Five” project, funded by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation,...
The 25th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Culture and Conservation: Fishing for Change was held in Perth, Australia, from November 9 to 15. This event is the most important in the field and brought together more than 1,400 researchers from 73...
The VI Ibero-American Symposium on Reproductive Ecology, Recruitment and Fisheries (SIBICORP) was held in the city of Lisbon, Portugal from November 11 to 15, 2024. A national delegation made up of eight researchers from both Chilean universities and the Fisheries Development Institute participated in...
During November, the Regional Outreach Meeting of the PAR EXPLORA Coquimbo project, executed by CAZALAC, was held at the La Serena Coliseum. More than 300 students from all over the Coquimbo Region met and the presentation of the work carried out by various groups...
Macarena Herrera Abaroa, researcher of the Larval Monitoring of Mussels of the Aquaculture Division of the Fisheries Development Institute (IFOP), was invited to the 2nd Scientific Workshop of the Learning Platform on Mussel Farming of the Millennium Institute in Coastal Socio-Ecology (SECOS). The event...
