Fish industry news

Next year prospects of both Russian pollock fishery and Alaska fishery are dubious because of current fishing situation in the Bering Sea. It is already clear that season B will finish before quota taking, and rest will be large. Experts estimate that TAC will be **** Mt, according to the overview prepared by analysts of www.megafishnet.com based on Japanese, Russian and American sources as per 12 October 2011.

Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs began consultations on implementation of the Agreement on Cooperation on Several Matters in the Field of Fisheries of Maritime Living Resources between the Government of Japan and the Government of the Russian Federation (the document dated February 21, 1998), reports http://www.megafishnet.com/

Latvian sturgeon farmer Mottra is planning to invest one million Euro to expand its production basins by 50%, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/

In September 2011 Norwegian seafood exports the Russian market totaled Euro 60.5 million, that staying approximately on a par with the corresponding result of last year, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/

After comparably bad years of 2009-2010 the Russian fishermen targeting saury in the nation's Far East reported almost double catches in the current year season partly thanks to stronger scientific support, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/

Russia's Federal Fisheries Agency can introduce adequate measures against Norway due to recent arrests of Russian fishing vessels in Spitsbergen, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/

At the 40th session in mid-October 2011 Mixed Russian-Norwegian Commission on Fisheries has approved nations' TACs 2012 for Northeast arctic cod and haddock, capelin and halibut, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/

Seven trout and one sturgeon production facilities will be built in Mogilev, Belarus, according to a regional program on production of valuable fish species in 2011-2015. Under the same program, regional authorities will support construction of plants for fish processing and production of special combined feeds, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/

During the first ten months of the current year 2011 Norwegian suppliers delivered more than 2.3 million juveniles of Atlantic salmon and 100,000 trout fry to one of Murmansk-based aquaculture plants, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/

Russia's Federal Fisheries Agency has approved nation's TACs in the Baltic Sea for the year 2012, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/

TACs 2012 for cod, ocean perch, Greenland halibut and other species in the NAFO zone have been set at 113,378 MT to display a decline from 142,450 MT in 2011, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/

The Japanese fishermen have closed kelp fishery near the Signal Island (Lesser Kuril Ridge) with a result of *** MT accounting for **% of their quota 2011, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/

Ukrainian fish farming experts are ready to share their expertise in sturgeon and carp culture with their Estonian colleagues, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/

The International Fishmeal and Fish Oil Organisation (IFFO) has invited Vladivostok-based Alaska Pollock Fishermen's Association as a leading fishmeal producer in the Russian Far East to become IFFO's member, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/

Norwegian and Russian scientists have found new habitats of cod in the Barents Sea, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/