Fish industry news
In 2006 seafood consumption on the Russian market increased by 15% to RUB400 billion ($15.5 billion).
As of 2008 governments of the coastal provinces will have a greater say in the management of the fishing seasons and the fishery will be coordinated on a broader scale.
Frozen fish market situation in Murmansk as per 2 October 2007
In early 2008 OOO Flipper (ltd) based in Nizhnyi Novgorod (one and a half million strong regional capital on the Volga River) is planning to commission a big fish processing complex worth 15 million Euro to build.
In 2007 Okean Vkusov Group of Companies has launched a fish processing plant equipped with laminaria automated lines in Orlov region to the south of Moscow.
In October 2007 Russia will probably make a decision on construction of a fish processing plant in Spitsbergen.
The assets of ZAO Sakhalin Fishing Company (closed JSC) based in the city of Kholmsk will be sold by auction on 9 October 2007
Founded in 1997 the Russian Sea Group of Companies has become an undisputed leader on the Russian seafood market in terms of its wide coverage of various segments, production output, sales volumes and implemented technologies.
The Russian government has granted broad powers to the newly made State Fisheries Committee in fact making it a compact ministry to run the industry at a moment when commitments have been made to speed up reforms and increase efficiency of the sector.
Russian fishery industry companies are ready to develop value-added processing of aquatic species inside the country and secure reliable shipments of Russian fish to the world market.
The State Duma of the Russian Federation has passed amendments to the Federal Law on Fishery and Conservation of Aquatic Biological Resources in the first reading.
During a recent trip to Vladivostok head of the State Fisheries Committee Andrey Krainy has told the province's fishermen about the committee's plans for the coming twelve months and about the ways to solve the most urgent fishermen's problems.
Russian Agricultural Bank Rosselkhozbank is going to launch the Fish Exchange in test mode in 2007 with the pilot project to provide for fish auctions between Moscow, Murmansk and Kaliningrad.
On 24 September 2007, along with approval of the new Cabinet (as proposed by recently appointed Prime-Minister Viktor Zubkov), Russia's President Putin ordered that the fishery industry should be now guided by the revived State Fisheries Committee removing the sector out of the jurisdiction of the nation's Ministry of Agriculture headed by Alexey Gordeyev.
Mutual Russian-Norwegian working group dealing with the issues of seafood export/import safety and conservation of aquatic biological stocks was established in June 2007 in Bergen ...
The State Duma of the Russian Federation has passed amendments to the Federal Law on Fishery and Conservation of Aquatic Biological Resources in the first reading.
As per 25 September 2007 blue whiting prices have been tending to grow.
Russia's agricultural bank Rosselkhozbank will soon sign an agreement with the nation's Federal Fisheries Agency, according to which in the coming year 2008 the bank will give 50 billion RUR as loans for the development of the Russian fishery industry ...
Representatives of the BASIS project (Barents Sea Intermodale Service) have paid a visit to Murmansk Marine Fish Port where General Director of the province's fish processing combine OAO Murmansk Fish Combine (plc) Mikhail Zub has presented to the audience a construction project of a transport-container terminal ...
In mid-September 2007 head of Russia's Federal Fisheries Agency Andrey Krainy visited a number of salmon ranching stations and fish processing plants in the south of Sakhalin.