Fish industry news
In early March 2012 leaders of Russia's Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) and the Fish Union signed a cooperation agreement aimed at making the system of veterinary control more transparent, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/
In 2011 Russia produced ca.** MT of sturgeon caviar, **% up on the previous year. Annual production of sturgeon meat currently amounts to ca.***MT, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/
Brussels, Belgium - (12 March, 2012) - The 20th edition of the European Seafood Exposition (ESE) and 14th edition of Seafood Processing Europe (SPE) will be held in Brussels, Belgium, between Tuesday 24 and Thursday 26 April. These global events will assemble seafood buyers and sellers from throughout the world with over 1,600 companies from more than 70 exhibiting countries
In February 2012 the fishery activity continued developing and, according to estimated figures, through the month the Russian harvest in the Atlantic Ocean amounted to *** MT, *** MT up on January 2012. The contribution of Kaliningrad-based vessels amounted to ca.**%, reports www.megafishnet.com.
The main developments in February have covered Icelandic and Faroese mackerel quotas, progress on jack mackerel measures, rapid alerts for consignments of fishery products and many other issues as summarized below.
Morpol's operating revenues in the fourth quarter amounted to EUR 150.2 million, which was 12.9 million lower than in the same period last year. The decrease in revenue in the fourth quarter was mainly due to a 6 percent reduction in processing sales volumes as well as a significant drop in salmon prices reducing revenues in farming.
Recently Pollock Catchers Association issued their proposals to Russia's Concept of WTO membership, reports www.megafishnet.com.
In 2011 Russian hatcheries released ** billion fry of valuable fish species, thus displaying an increase on 2010 by **% or ** million fish, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/
Norway Seafoods received an operating result of 1 million kroner in the forth quarter 2012, a slight improvement from the same period 2011. Despited that the finished goods market in Eurpean was weeker this year compare to last year.
According to Russia's Federal Fisheries Agency, in 2011 Russia's import and export of fresh, chilled and frozen seafood (including fillets) showed opposite trends, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/
According to provisional figures based on customs declarations, in 2011 Russian companies exported *** MT of frozen pollock and *** MT of frozen Pacific herring, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/
Herring season is almost over, APO A-season is coming to middle. Spring Festival in China is over (we better know it as Lunar New Year). The year has really started, reports www.megafishnet.com.