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Patagonian Sea atlas published

Portuguese navy thwarts Somali pirate attack
Lisbon (AFP) Nov 19, 2009 - The Portuguese navy thwarted an attack on a local fishing boat by pirates off the coast of Somalia, officials said on Thursday. Fishermen raised the alarm when five pirates tried to hijack their boat some 100 nautical miles (220 kilometres) to the north of Port Bassasso, Portuguese navy officials said in a statement. A group of Portuguese officers from the Alvares Cabral vessel arrived on the scene by helicopter accompanied by a Spanish navy plane and arrested the five would-be hijackers, the statement said. This operation "shows pirates that NATO and its partners are coordinated and ready to prevent pirate attacks in the Gulf of Aden," it added. The UN's International Maritime Organization's (IMO) says that from January to September of this year, 160 acts of piracy were reported off the coast of Somalia, including 34 hijacked vessels and more than 450 people taken hostage.

US Navy rescues Yemen fisherman abandoned by pirates
Manama (AFP) Nov 19, 2009 - The US Navy said on Thursday that one of its cruisers had rescued three Yemeni fishermen after pirates captured their boat and forced them overboard with only a wooden plank to support them. The stranded fishermen were rescued by the USS Chosin on Tuesday in the Gulf of Aden, where they had been drifting for three days with only a few bottles of water, said a statement from the US Fifth Fleet, which is based in Bahrain. "According to the fishermen, they were left stranded in the water after 12 suspected pirates hijacked their vessel," the statement said. "The fishermen also said that the pirates gave them an ultimatum to either jump overboard with only a wooden plank as a flotation device or be killed." It said they were spotted by a merchant vessel, which notified multinational naval forces patrolling Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean waters plagued by pirates from Somalia.
by Staff Writers
 New York (UPI) Nov 19, 2009
Two conservation groups say they have jointly produced the first atlas of the Patagonian Sea -- a South American marine ecosystem.

Officials of the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York and BirdLife International in Cambridge, England, said the atlas contains the most accurate maps ever assembled for the Patagonian Sea region, revealing key migratory corridors for penguins, albatrosses, sea lions and other marine animals.

Data for the atlas was gathered by a team of 25 scientists during a 10-year period, using radio collars and satellites to track 16 species of marine animals, producing some 280,000 individual uplinks of data over the Patagonian Sea, which covers 1.1 million square miles from southern Brazil to southern Chile.

Called Atlas of the Patagonian Sea: Species and Spaces, the 300-page book -- available in English and Spanish -- was edited by Valeria Falabella and Claudio Campagna of the Wildlife Conservation Society, and John Croxall of Birdlife International.

"This unprecedented atlas was essentially written by the wildlife that live in the Patagonian Sea," said Campagna who runs the Wildlife Conservation Society's "Sea and Sky" initiative. "The atlas helps fill in many gaps of knowledge and should serve as a blueprint for future conservation efforts in this region."

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