EDITOR’S STATEMENT Russian Fish Report to be replaced with a different Service Format 3 HIGHLIGHTS MONITOR Fishery Head gives High Marks to Leadership of Fishery Sector and calls for Regulation from Sea to Plate Russian – Japanese Agreement at APEC to slash illegal crab landings and boost prices Russia needs new port, cold store facilities and boats to tap unexploited stocks in Southern Fisheries METRO Cash & Carry in Court versus Federal Anti-Monopoly Service over $4 Million Fine AQUACULTURE Foreign Investors may be allowed to privatize Sakhalin’s Salmon Ranching Stations COMPANY UPDATE Russia’s Anti-Trust Authority okays Bid for last Government-owned Cod Harvester Russian Pollock Association under Anti-Trust Fire in connection with Pacific Andes Case SUPPLY FROM RUSSIAN FAR EAST Russia’s largest in Asia sockeye salmon fishery to increase world supply of MSC-certified sockeye The Season’s First Shipment of Salmon by Northern Sea Route causing mixed Feelings Mixed results for Exports from Vladivostok-led Primorye Province SUPPLY FROM NORTH AND WEST FISHERY BASINS Overview of Russian fisheries in North and Central Atlantic in August 2012 VET UPDATE Norwegian vets exclude fish plants from establishments authorized for export to Russian/Customs Union market Russian Vet Watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor issues Warning to two Indian Plants Russian vet control summary from mid-August to mid-September 2012 APPENDIX 1: Catches of Russian fishing companies in nation’s EEZ in January-August 2011-2012