Russian Fish e-Monthly No.1 (76) january 1, 2003

FISHING INDUSTRY NEWS
Draft fishery law fails to pass lower house
Powerful ministry reconfirms commitment to quota auctions
Fishery MP accepts quota charges as irreversible
Murmansk launching cod farming project
New clearance routine speeds up landings in Murmansk
Icelandic investment wave led by ethnic Russian
Row over pelagic vessel register
Ex-coordinator wins court dispute to regain “Sevryba-1” trawler
COMPANY NEWS
Murmansk leading combine commissioning cannery
Sevrybkholodflot charters out fishing vessels
Korean firm steps up business in Russia
FISHING SCENE
Last year catch rise in North Fisheries overshadowed by mixed outlook for 2003
Murmansk starts fishery on provisional quotas
Murmansk reports catch increase
Catch 2002 in the Russian Far East short of fresh forecast
January fishery in the RFE hit by late quota issue
Pollack run into Russian waters stopped by “cold wall”
SHIPBUILDING, CONVERSIONS AND REFURBISHMENT
Kamchatka combine buys vessel in Murmansk
Murmansk firm seeking consents for purchase of trawler
MARKET MONITOR
Stocks, quotas, supplies, prices, new products, etc.
Freezing waterways hit shipments to Moscow and St. Petersburg
Government puts up more quotas for sale
Government sets preliminary schedule for quota auctions in 2003
Three quota auctions drain industry of $300 million
Fishermen eagerly buying 106,500 tonnes of Barents Sea cod
Poor sale of red king crab quotas sends supply into coma
Abundant roe pollack quotas leading to more affordable prices
Pollack roe production set to rise
The government has cut Vladivostok’s share of free quotas
Caspian Fishery Commission setting sturgeon quotas
Standard requires scientific names for salmons
Russia and Japan agree quota swap for 2003
East Kamchatka restocking effort slightly short of target
Appendix 1. LIST OF CATCH QUOTAS PUT UP FOR AUCTION ON 12 February 2003
Appendix 2. Results of the quota auction held on 27, 28 and 29 December 2002
29 December 2002
28 December 2002
27 December 2002
Appendix 3. Results of quota auctions in 2001 and 2002
Appendix 4: Free quotas for 2003 allocated to coastal provinces subject to landing and sale in Russia
Appendix 5: Free quotas 2003 versus free quotas 2002 allocated to coastal provinces subject to landing and sale in Russia
Appendix 5: Events
Appendix 6: January overview of wholesale prices