Fish industry news
It looks like Bristol Sockeye season will be one of the worst in history. Any other time it would've been good news for Russian producers, but not this year
A number of Mps of Russia's Duma (Lower House) have asked First Vice-Premier Igor Shuvalov to oversee the privatization of Arkhangelsk Trawl Fleet, a company with 20 fishing vessels and large cod and haddock quotas and sell the last government-owned giant at public auction rather than by closed tender
Rosstat has disclosed the final figures of export and import of fishery products to May 2012, the exports including both the customs data and the statistical data covering export shipments from beyond the Russian EEZ, the latter not crossing the border and thus not monitored by the customs. The figures also include trade with Belarus and Kazakhstan (members of Custom Union with RF)
Russia has warned it has strong counter-measures and claims up the sleeve should Iceland realize its threat to suspend entry and service for Russian fishing trawlers in Icelandic ports as soon as the Russian catch of redfish in the Irminger Sea will have exceeded 6 624 tonnes
From mid-June to mid-July 2012 Russia's Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) has issued a number of directives concerning importation of finfish and other seafood products onto the territory of the Russian Federation. These include enhanced lab controls, imposed and lifted restrictions on companies from a number of countries, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/
The countries affected include Armenia, Cyprus, Vietnam, Canada, China, Denmark, Greece, Netherlands, USA and Chile.
The list of companies with incompliance is still longer: OOO Dimitri, Kimagro Fish Farming Ltd, Anh Long Seafood processing., РТЕ, Freshwater Fish Marketing Corp-WPG, Tien Dat Seafood Processing Co., Ltd, Minh Phu Seafood, Rizhao Jinkang Foodstuff Co., Ltd, Claus Sorensen A/S, Anh Long Seafood processing., PTE, AN LAC SEAFOOD Co., Ltd - ALSF Co., LTD, Viet Phu Foods and Fish Corporation, Hung Ca Co., Ltd, NEPTUNUS THALASIES KALIERGIES S.A. (CORPORATION DIAS AQUACULTURES S.A.), DaySeaDay Holding, Rongcheng Hailongwang Aquatic Foods Co. Ltd, Sea Trade International Co., Inc., Processor Mersey Venture, ORIZON S.A.
As per 20 July (latest available figures) the Salmon catch in the Russian Far East has increased by 61% on the same period of the basis even year of 2010. However the result is not as impressive if comparison is made with the bumper year of 2011. The inventory from the last season is another factor in the play
Russia's Fishery head Andrei Krainy has been nominated for approval by PM Medvedev to a higher position of Deputy Minister of Agriculture - Chief of Federal Fisheries Agency
As per mid-July the Russian market in the Central Federal District (Moscow and surrounding administrative regions) has gone short of larger sizes of chilled farmed salmon
Belarus, which has dropped ‘special importer' controls for frozen fish, has kept stricter regulation for import of freshwater fish and products of same
As per mid-July the catch in the Russian Far East Fisheries Basin has developed a lag on the same period last year
Andrey Krainy,Deputy Minister of Agruiculture and Head of Russia's Federal Fisheries Agency Rosrybolovstvo, promised to stop illegal crab traffic in Pacific by the end 2012
The Agriculture Ministry of Russia is to finish preparation of Russian Fishery Development Program till 2020. The deadline is end of August. The Program was mentioned by Minister Nikolay FEDOROV during Duma hearings on WTO
According to the previously achieved agreements, negotiations will take place from 16-21 July this year in Morocco to confirm the previously achieved agreements on cooperation between the Rosselkhoznadzor and the National Office for Food Safety of Morocco during export of Moroccan products under quarantine to Russia
The situation on the world market of wild salmon as well as the pollock market is certainly affecting the fish exports from the Russian Far East. These factors are already being reflected in the dynamics of shipments in July,
Oleg Darkin, General Director of the nation's second largest quota holder NBAMR based in Nakhodka in the Russian Far East, has given an interview to a local newspaper Nakhodkinsky Rabochy. He explained the company position and outlined its plans for the future
Igor Uleisky, ex-vice governor of Primorsky Krai Province (Capital Vladivostok), joined Russian Sea -Fishery Company - not a formal subsidiary of the Russian Sea Group but rather the fishing arm of the same owners
Russian Sea Group is interested in privatization of Arkhangelsk Trawl Fleet, a company with 20 fishing vessels and large cod and haddock quotas. Russian Sea has recently applied to Federal Antimonopoly Service asking for a permission to buy 100% of ATF. The permission has not been granted yet
Russian market players are closely watching mackerel quota developments in a hope the stock will not follow the ill-fated blue whiting, to take a recent example
Draft amendments to Russia's Fishery Law and related amendments to Continental Shelf Law and Exclusive Economic Zone Law have been published recently for consultation with the nation's fishery industry
A meeting between the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance and the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of the Republic of Korea was held in Busan on 29.06.2012. The Russian delegation was headed by Deputy Head of the Rosselkhoznadzor N.A.Vlasov. Also representatives of the Rosselkhoznadzor's central office and the Rosselkhoznadzor Administration for the Primorsky Krai and the Sakhalin Oblast and the FGBI "Primorskaya Inter-Oblast Veterinary Laboratory" took part in the meeting on behalf of Russia