Coinciding with the end of the Illex campaign, the Director of Natural Resources in the Falkland Islands has made it public that, during this last period, over 268,223 tonnes have been caught, improving the record noted for 1999 when Argentine illex catches rose to 266,201.
Previous figures have led to an important fall in prices for this product on an international scale, and in fact, there are no few local shipowners who have stocked raw material in the hope that the market will stabilize.
On the other hand, buyers are taking advantage of the situation to build up stocks of the product since, when it comes to species such as Illex, with somewhat unpredictable catches and considerable changes from one year to the next, conjectures and forecasts as to how the forthcoming campaign will be are out of place.