Fish industry news
The Russian shrimp market has been growing as well as the range of products on offer.
According to forecasts, in June 2007 the Russian traders will be facing rising prices for pink shrimp Pandalus borealis exported to this growing market from Denmark.
The below table shows frozen fish price trends in Murmansk as per 15 May 2007 as reported for FISHNET.RU by a major Murmansk-based trader.
In connection with the finding of the Salmonell culture in the course of monitoring checks in surimi mince shipped to the Russian Federation from the Lithuanian plant ...
Belarus has increased its import quota for shellfish, mollusks and other invertebrates (HSC 0306 and 0307) 2.5-fold to 5000 tonnes, and a similar increase to 500 tonnes has been approved for its quota of ready-to-eat or canned shellfish, mollusks and other invertebrates (HSC 1605).
In mid-May 2007 the Sakhalin Fishery Council met to allocate chum salmon quotas for the season 2007.
Sakhalin Railways has been facing a decrease of seafood shipments mostly due to high prices for the service.
The Russian veterinary and phytosanitary service Rosselkhoznadzor has introduced a ban on seafood shipments from a number of Chilean plants due to discovered cases of forged certificates for seafood products imported to Russia.
The Russian veterinary and phytosanitary service Rosselkhoznadzor has introduced temporary restriction for seafood shipments from a number of plants from Lithuania and Chile as of 15 May 2007.
During recent food safety checks of imported products the Russian veterinary and phytosanitary service Rosselkhoznadzor has rejected a 4.5-tonne consignment of surimi mince made in India due to presence of Staphylococcus aureus in the samples checked.
Russia's supermarket chain (Family) recently completed the tasting of "Squid meat",
Moscow-based Russian Sea Company has introduced a new product "Salted screened cod roe".
The "Palisandr" Company, one of the leading seafood processors in Kaluga Region of Russia (150 - 200 km south-west of Moscow) has launched a new line of products to compliment its existing range of smoked...
Moscow based Ledovo Group (the Group says it is among the three largest Russian manufacturers of seafood in brines and frozen seafood) has installed a new line to produce seafood delicacies at its plant "Ledovo Svetly"...
The salmon season 2007 can be the most successful for the Russian fishermen which are expected to harvest 320,000-330,000 tonnes of salmon.
In the second half of May 2007 the Alaska pollock fishery in the West Bering Sea zone is resumed after a temporary closure in spring according to the Fishery Regulations.
According to provisional figures, in April 2007 the total Russian harvest in the seas of the Far East came down by more than 30,000 tonnes as compared to the same month last year.
The past month was marked by changing prices of herring and capelin and some other developments on the market of St. Petersburg, Russia's main entry port for seafood.
According to Rosselkhoznadzor's letter No.FS-VN-2/3959 dated 28 April 2007, in the course of monitoring checks of imported animal products from 23 to 30 March 2007 laboratory examinations of food safety (microbiological and organoleptic indices) presented primary positive results as follows.
In the course of monitoring checks of imported animal products from 13 to 20 April 2007 laboratory examinations of food safety (microbiological and organoleptic indices) produced primary positive results as follows...