Fish industry news
Deliveries of fish in bulk to China as was typical for the Russian suppliers until recently, are unlikely to resume in the same volumes, reports Megafishnet.com.
The second stage of crab quota auctions is likely to unroll in 2023. Other valuable species are also planned to be put up for auction with investment obligations, reports Megafishnet.com.
We are pleased to inform that we have just published the July issue of Russian Fish e-Monthly which is edited by Mr. Andrey Buzin, a seafood professional with a background of senior positions in Russia’s leading fishing companies.
Far Eastern fishermen have off-season of a kind this month, reports Megafishnet.com.
The season is over, long live the season - our American colleagues might say, who collect almost all the roe, found in fish. For Russian fishermen, for whom the production of everything is determined by above-specified coefficients, to recognize today's pollock as contenting roe automatically means to hit the volume of fillet and HG production. Therefore, roe women go on vacation, and trawlers go to maintainance.
Shipbuilding for Russian fishing fleet became quite active just about three years ago, and by today a few ships have been handed over to customers, calmly surfing waters and performing the tasks assigned to them in terms of catch. However, there are still many trawlers, seiners, longliners, and crabbers on the slipways, near the quay walls, completing construction or awaiting trials. Megafishnet will look at what shipyards they are being built and what happens to them based on a report prepared by Korabel.ru and own expertise.
As per mid-July 2021 the wholesale market at St. Petersburg (Russia’s main entry port for imported seafood) is displaying declining prices for mackerel originating from the Faroe Islands, reports Megafishnet.com.
Current July has been featuring weak trade in the wholesale market of frozen salmon and trout in Moscow, reports Megafishnet.com.
As per mid-July 2021 Murmansk wholesale market is displaying a steadily short supply for cod, haddock and other whitefish for the domestic needs as most of the catch is shipped for export, reports Megafishnet.com.
In mid-July 2021 the market participants in the Russian Far East have been mostly keen on the salmon season progressing in the Basin, reports Megafishnet.com.
The Russian shipments of live king crab to South Korea, which had been falling for three months in a row until May, intensified very sharply in this month, but remained at a lower level compared to last year. Imports of Norwegian products were also much less active than in May 2020, but, as in the case of the Russian shipments, at a much higher price, but the price rise when importing the Russian products was much more powerful, reports Megafishnet.com.
Overall American imports of frozen snow crab were at a higher level in May than in 2020. The price index has risen especially strongly, and not so much for the supply of Russian products, but for the input from the grounds off Eastern Canada, which remains the main supply source of the snow crab on the US market, reports Megafishnet.com.
Russia’s Federal Agency for Fishery (FAF) has, in fact, agreed that it will still support the resumption of krill fishery despite proposed construction of vessels at foreign yards. Foreign-built second-hand boats are also considered as an extra option for the resumption of the fishery in the Antarctic by the Russians, reports Megafishnet.com.
The total catch by the Russian fleet in the fishing areas of the Atlantic Ocean and in the South Pacific Ocean in June amounted to 105.9 thousand metric tons, which is merely 0.7 thousand tons less than the catch in May. However, the progress of the catch in particular areas like the Barents Sea (cod, for example) displayed dynamic changes, reports Megafishnet.com.
Both federal and local fishery authorities are voicing concern that the unrolling salmon season in Kamchatka may run into a shortage of cold storage capacity, reports Megafishnet.com.
The Pollock Catchers Association (PCA) has proved that the pollock trawl fishery in the Western Bering Sea Zone meets the requirements of the international environmental standards of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) and on July 6, 2021, the final certification decision on the recognition of the Russian pollock fishery in the Bering Sea as stable and well-managed was published on the MSC website, reports Megafishnet.com.
Khabarovsk Shipbuilding Plant has completed the installation of the bow section of the newbuilding crabber (design 03141), reports Megafishnet.com.
In a counter move, the Russian government has expanded economic sanctions against Ukraine, reports Megafishnet.com.
JSC ``Nakhodka Ship Repair Plant '' has performed technological loading of the main engine on a newbuilding crabber- live crab carrier, reports Megafishnet.com.
The Interdepartmental Commission for the Selection of Investment Projects has approved six new applications for investment quota shares versus an obligation to build fishing vessels at domestic yards, reports Megafishnet.com.