Without a global coastal variety campaign, Banco Patria is evaluated

The supplies that had yet to be taken to the deck were finished being loaded and yesterday, Monday, after noon, the research campaign on Banco Patria, an area of rocky bottom 18 miles off Mar, was launched aboard the ship “Mar Argentino”. del Plata where the Varied Coastal Project plans to meet various objectives Banco Patria is located 32 meters deep. Its most notable characteristic is the great abundance of soft corals, as well as sponges, and the absence of mussels. As they are banks formed by more fragile rocks, marine erosion has built many cracks, channels and caves, which is why groupers, salmon, sea bream, and amberjacks abound. It is the consolation campaign in the face of the impossibility of completing the global varied coastal campaign that the agenda at the beginning of the year stipulated to be carried out with the ship “Eduardo Holmberg”, which continues with its repair tasks since last April 13 it boarded one of SPI dry docks to renew certificates. At the end of ...