Fish industry news
The Governor of the Tula Region Alexey Dyumin and the CEO of the Dobroflot Group of Companies Alexander Efremov have signed an investment agreement providing for the construction of the Yuzhmorrybflot Logistics Complex in the city of Tula about 180 km south of Moscow, reports Megafishnet.com.
The leading speakers from foreign experts and representatives of international organizations confirmed their participation in the business program of the Global Fishery Forum & Seafood Expo Russia 2021.
Direct Russian seafood exports to China have been plummeting in 2021, reports Megafishnet.com.
In early June the Admiralty Shipyards (St. Petersburg) hosted a ceremony of laying the keel of the fifth of the ten supertrawlers that will be built here for the Russian Fishery Company (RFC), reports Megafishnet.com.
The State Duma has successfully completed the second reading of a bill that will set the same 10% VAT rate for live freshwater trout as already charged on sea trout, reports Megafishent.com.
Owners of a major fishing company operating from Murmansk have embarked on a big RAS project to farm rainbow trout in Karelia province in Northwest Russia, reports Megafishnet.com.
On June 1, the Pacific salmon fishery took off in the Russian Far East. The targeted species will mostly include pink salmon, chum salmon, sockeye and coho as well as less important quantities of chinook and sima, reports Megafishnet.com.
Federal Agency for Fishery (FAF) has eventually succeeded in selling the last lot of deep-sea crab quota shares at a seventh investment-linked auction taking place on May 31st with the previous six attempts ending in failure for lack of bidders, reports Megafishnet.com.
On May 25, 2021, a medium-tonnage fishing trawler of T40B project was laid at the Volga-based Nobel Brothers Shipyard, a subsidiary of the Kalashnikov Group of Companies, reports Megafishnet.com.
Russia’s consumer protection body Rospotrebnadzor has joined the working group to help update the requirements for the content of arsenic in fish products, the current obsolete rates preventing an increase in consumption of a number of valuable species, reports Megafishnet.com.
As per start of June the process of resuming the export of Russian seafood to China by reefer vessels remained stalled casting shadows on the prospects for bulk shipments from the unrolling wild salmon season to the Chinese market later this year, reports Megafishnet.com.
As per late May, more than 540 thousand tons of fish products have been exported from the Primorye region (main export hub in the Russian Far East) since the beginning of 2021 with the destinations’ shares considerably changing versus the same period in 2020, reports Megafishnet.com.
"Russian Aquaculture" PJSC (Russia’s largest company in the sector of commercial salmon and trout farming) has announced the exercise of an option to purchase the remaining 60% of an up-to-date plant for primary processing of fish in the Murmansk region, reports Megafishnet.com.
Russian Crab Group of Companies (RC), a new major quota holder, has made its first shipment of crab products to the EU, reports Megafishnet.com.
From 1st January 2022, the Russian seafood producers will be subject to new requirements of the General Customs Administration of the People's Republic of China on the import of food products, fish and seafood inclusive, reports Megafishnet.com.
Russia’s Federal Agency for Fishery (FAF) and its territorial divisions have announced plans to conduct auctions for 143 aquaculture sites with a total area of 22 thousand hectares in the near future, reports Megafishnet.com.
The Sub-Commission on Customs Tariff and Non-tariff Regulation, Protective Measures in Foreign Trade has proposed to extend zero rates of import customs duties on trout and salmon fry until December 31, 2024, reports Megafishnet.com.
In the first four months of 2021, Russia has steeply increased exports of agricultural products to Japan with the greatest input provided by frozen seafood, reports Megafishnet.com.
The installation of fishing and cargo deck equipment has been completed on the lead supertrawler "Kapitan Vdovichenko" from a series of vessels that are being built for the Russian Fishery Company (RFC) at the Admiralty Shipyards in St. Petersburg, reports Megafishnet.com.
The head of Russia’s Federal Agency for Fishery (FAF) Ilya Shestakov has confirmed plans to open a snow crab opilio fishery in the Kara Sea from 2022, reports Megafishnet.com.