Contents
EDITOR’S NOTE
- Russian Fish e-Monthly to highlight sector’s opportunities for international business
SECTOR HIGHLIGHTS (IMPORTANT NEWS)
- Russia and China negotiate COVID-linked seafood trade issues
- Putin signs law to simplify seafood export VAT refund
- Government digital platform to help boost Russian exports of processed seafood
- Russia takes the trouble to ratify the Agreement On Port State Measures
- Russian national catch progress to November 2020
- YTD October 2020 Seafood export shows controvercial trends for value and volume
- McDonald's to source local seafood for new restaurants in the Russian Far East
- Russian government amended rules for foreign investors deals in strategic industries
- Fish ports and coldstores to gain from 3 million tonne turnover target
- Russia to continue fishing off Morocco for another four years
- Russian government approves foreign labour recruitment quotas for 2021
SEAFOOD SUPPLY FROM RUSSIAN FAR EAST
- Sales from Russian Far East hit by uncertainties with export to China
- China bottleneck overshadows prospects for pollock A-season in the Sea of Okhotsk
- Hearing of dispute between big pollock players postponed
- 2021 forecast for Russian “A” and “B” pollock seasons
- Kamchatka and Chukotka fishermen have improved year-on-year catch results
- Lack of destination diversity exposing RFE exports to fluctuations in external demand
- Russian Far East companies displaying different priсe, value and volume efficiency in seafood exports
PACIFIC MARKETS
- Pollock roe auctions in Busan took off with diving prices
- Prices of South Korean imports of live snow crab on a rise
SEAFOOD SUPPLY FROM MURMANSK-LED NORTH FISHERIES
- Further constraints hitting Russian and global seafood exports to China
- Landings surge in Murmansk
- Barents Sea catch and quota progress to November 2020
- Norwegian Sea catch and quota progress to November 2020
- Catch and quota progress in Northeast/Northwest Atlantic and Central East Atlantic to November 2020
- Baltic Sea catch and quota progress to November 2020
- Russian fleets winding up herring fishery in Faroese Zone and other areas
- Progress and outlook for shrimp fishery in Barents Sea in 2020-2021
- NAFO approved overall TACs and Russia’s fishing quotas for 2021
SEAFOOD IMPORTS AND DOMESTIC MARKET
- Russian fish and seafood imports for 9 months of 2020
- Russian seafood imports in January – October 2020
- Saint-Petersburg market behind usual end-of-year acceleration
- Moscow salmon and trout market still waiting for season’s rally
VET UPDATE
- Russian vet control summary in September -November 2020
- Russia and Egypt Seafood export negotiations
- Russia getting ready to export seafood to Indonesia
COMPANY UPDATE
- Onshore plants worth $26 million nearing completion
- Pilot phase of $40 million crab factory taking off in Murmansk
- $36 million Fish Market Layout plan finalized in Vladivostok
- Leading processor announcing plans for big changes in production and distribution
SHIPBUILDING, ONSHORE PLANTS AND REFURBISHMENT
- Turkish yard delivers first supertrawler to Russia’s major pollock harvester
- Seventh factory trawler laid for NOREBO Group at Northern shipyard
- Newbuilds for non-TAC and low margin species to get 30% refund
- YANTAR Yard moves newbuilding trawler to open slipway
- Good business in Russia for Baader despite COVID-19
- Newbuilding wet fish trawler to help boost fillet production
- Massive newbuilding program for Magadan-based company in Turkey and Russia
- Second factory trawler laid for Atlantrybflot
- Second crabber laid for Russia’s biggest crab quota holder
- Third seiner-trawler delivered to customer in the Russian Far East
AQUACULTURE
- Marine culture surging in the Russian Far East to chase huge potential
- Big rise for Russia’s production of Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout
- Aquaculture sites distribution by electronic auction set for expansion
- Russian fish farmers getting extra protection through subsidized insurance
APPENDIX 1: Fairs and Exhibitions
- Peterfood held in unusual format
- Russian seafood fairs 2021