Fish industry news

At present Sakhalin has 58 chum salmon ranching plants, which contribute to the region’s leading position in the Pacific salmon reproduction in the Far East. The years 2019 and 2020 showed a progressive rise of chum salmon runs to the basic rivers in the southeast of Sakhalin where the plants are located. Namely, the runs grew stronger to 6.7 thousand metric tons (+7.4% above the expectations) in 2019 and 9.9 thousand tonnes (+22.6%) in 2020, reports Megafishnet.com.

The Russian Fish Company (RFC) is launching its own chain of seafood shops in Moscow, reports Megafishnet.com.

Astrakhan scientists developed new compound aquafeeds containing a natural attractant - glasswort (Salicornia genus) that grows in the region, reports Megafishnet.com.

The most important fishery in Pacific Russia - Alaska pollock fishery in the Sea of Okhotsk - is under way.  Sixty days out of a hundred have passed, but fishing is slow.  Total APO catch was 399.3 thousand MT, 25% (129,400 MT) below 2020 result when it was 528,700 MT, reports Megafishnet.com.

As of March 2, 2021, Russia’s veterinary watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor imposes restrictions on fish feed imports from a UK company due to the GM-content, reports Megafishnet.com.

Russia’s fishery head Ilya Shestakov has disclosed plans for a further big boost to the country’s fish processing capability beyond the current targets under the investment quota shares scheme, reports Megafishnet.com.

In January 2021 Murmansk suppliers exported **** metric tons of finfish and other aquatic species or twice more as compared to **** tonnes delivered to the international market in January 2020, reports Megafishnet.com.

The new Strategy for Combating Illegal Trade in Industrial Products in the Russian Federation for the period up to 2025 was approved by the Government Decree No. 256 of February 6, 2021. The previous strategy was valid for the period up to 2020, reports Megafishnet.com.

The TAD «Kurily» (the territory of advanced social and economic development in the Kurile Islands) will be expanded to carry out new investment projects associated with the fish sector. The respective order was signed by Russia’s PM Mikhail Mishustin on February 20, 2021, reports Megafishnet.com.

Online fish trade has been fast growing in Russia. Now it is moving from online chains and dedicated fish shops to e-commerce market places where multiple suppliers offer an unlimited range of fish products, reports Megafishnet.com.

LLC Ladesol-Tambov Uvarovo from the Tambov region (ca.400km south-southeast of Moscow) acquired a RUR400mln loan from MSP-bank in order to complete construction of a new feed protein plant, reports Megafishnet.com.

In line with its strategy of developing infrastructure Murmansk Sea Fish Port prepared sites for storage of refrigerated containers, reports Megafishnet.com.

Scientists from the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography VNIRO are going to use artificial intelligence and drones to simplify surveys of Pacific salmon stocks, reports Megafishnet.com.

St.Petersburg-based Northern Shipyard (Severnaya Verf) laid the eight freezing trawler-processor Captain Korotich ordered by JSC Akros (part of the NOREBO Group), report Megafishnet.com.

Businesses based in Kamchatka have big plans for 2021 as regards new fish processing factories and fishing vessels, reports Megafishnet.com.

Russia has published the results for fish products output in January 2021, reports Megafishnet.com.

Critics claim that the main stake of the Russia’s Federal Agency for Fisheries on pollock processing at sea is wrong leading to excessive export bias while the needs of the domestic consumption are increasingly neglected, reports Megafishnet com.

The "Admiralty Shipyards" (St. Petersburg) began cutting steel for the sixth vessel from a series of supertrawlers for the "Russian Fishery Company" (RFC), reports Megafishnet.com...

The harvest volume and sales of Russian Aquaculture (Russia’s leading Atlantic salmon farmer) displayed a considerable decrease year-on-year in 2020. This was mainly caused by the shift of the fish slaughtering to 2021 because of the slower growth to marketable weight in the abnormally low water temperatures in the first half of 2020, reports Megafishnet.com...

Unlike king crab, in December 2020 American import of frozen snow crab was even weaker than in November and much lower than in December 2019...