Argentine-Uruguayan campaign for northern anchovy stock has ended

INIDEP reported that the results of the research cruise aimed at northern anchovy, led by biologist Claudio Buratti of the Pelagic Fish Fisheries Program, will be presented in the coming days in a Campaign Report. The researchers of the Institute together with the researcher Ernesto Chiesa of the National Directorate of Aquatic Resources of Uruguay and the crew of the cruise ship managed to meet the planned objectives in 24 working days. Among these objectives was the estimation of the biomass of the population by the hydroacoustic method and by the daily egg production method (MPDH); characterize the composition of the population by length and age classes; estimate population parameters (growth, mortality, length of first maturity); identify and quantify the abundance of prey organisms of the anchovy as well as characterize the oceanographic conditions of the study area and its relationship with the presence of ...