Fish industry news
Russia's Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Rosselkhoznadzor has cancelled the temporary restrictions for Chilean processing plants which have not been approved for export to Russian Federation.
As per 2 April 2008 Russia's Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Rosselkhoznadzor added 13 more processing plants from Vietnam to the list of establishments approved for export to Russian Federation.
In April 2008 the fishery conditions in the Barents Sea are forecasted to be fairly non-stable with a possible decrease of the efficiency on the bottomfish grounds.
According to provisional figures, in March 2008 the total harvest of Russian vessels in the North Atlantic and Central Eastern Atlantic amounted to ca.*** tonnes ...
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In a recent statement Andrey Krainy, the Head of Russia's State Fisheries Committee has confirmed that the opening of the first electronic fish auction should take place
The beginning of April 2008 saw the start of transfer of fishery police property from the regional agencies of the Ministry of Agriculture to the territorial departments of Russia's State Fisheries Committee,
Nakhodka-based BAMR-Roliz group of companies known as the largest pollock quota holder in the Russian Far East boosted its fleet with another large BATM vessel "Kapitan Sukhondyaevsky".
The Russian vets and Columbian Embassy have held talks on forthcoming inspections of Columbian fish processing plants.
On 12 March 2008 the Russian government issued an order to create a new more advanced Federal Centre of Fisheries Monitoring and Communication under the Russia's State Fisheries Committee, said Russian government press service.
Under the Russian Federation Government' order, on March 11, 2008 an interdepartmental commission was set up to study feasibility of proposed Rosrybflot State Corporation,
According to provisional information, in 2007 Sakhalin-based fishing companies harvested 518,300 tonnes of finfish and other aquatic species to display a 14.5% increase on 2006.
During their trips in the deepwater zone of the North Atlantic in 2004-2007 research trawlers and longliners owned by Murmansk-based scientific and production company ZAO NPP Vega (closed JSC) discovered fishable concentrations of traditional and non-traditions species.
Russia's State Fisheries Committee intends almost to double the number of inspectors who check fishing vessels at sea,