To open up new fishing grounds, in 1983 a number of ships traveled to the Falkland Islands, in the southwest Atlantic Ocean, and along the coast of Argentina, to catch squid. They discovered that catch volumes exceeded anything they had seen before, and since then the industry has expanded rapidly.
為了開發新漁場，民國七十二年，有幾條漁船到西南大西洋的福克蘭群島、阿根廷一帶公海捕魷，發現漁獲量比過去的任何一個漁場都豐富。