News - aquaculture / fish farming

According to the results of 9 months of 2021, commercial cultivation of salmonids reached 120 thousand metric tons in Russia the output exceeding the volume for the same period in 2020 by 29%.

Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) has won a big grant to breed new genetic samples of salmon, rainbow trout and pond carp, reports Megafishnet.com.

The aquaculture production in Russia has doubled over the past 10 years, this year it is expected to grow by 15%, reports Megafishnet.com.

ROK-1 Group, a major value-added processor based in St-Petersburg, will be at least doubling its output by building a new processing plant and a RAS trout farm in the surrounding region, reports Megafishnet.com.

Rosrybolovstvo (Russia’s Federal Agency for Fisheries or FAF for short), the National Association of Industrial Aquaculture Enterprises and AquaMaof Aquaculture Technologies, a world leader in the field of intelligent recycling systems for onshore aquaculture, signed a memorandum of cooperation in the field of fish farming development, reports Megafishnet.com.

Russian Aquaculture PJSC (the “Company”), the largest Russian company in the commercial fish farming (aquaculture) sector, announces its unaudited consolidated IFRS financial results for the six months ended 30 June 2021 (1H 2021).

In the first half of 2021, sturgeon farms in Russia considerably boosted production of fish and roe, reports Megafishnet.com.

The volume of commercial aquaculture products in Russia in the first half of 2021 increased by 25% compared to the same period last year amounting to 211 thousand tons, reports Megafishnet.com.

PJSC Russian Aquaculture, the largest Russian company in the commercial fish farming (aquaculture) sector, has published the data of unaudited management reports for the first half of 2021, reports Megafishnet.com.

In early July the Russian Aquaculture Group of Companies (the "Company") (MOEX: AQUA), the largest Russian company in the commercial fish farming (aquaculture) sector, announced an increase in the volume of the share repurchase program, reports Megafishnet.com.

President Vladimir Putin has signed a federal law that establishes value-added tax benefits for aquaculture, reports Megafishnet.com.

On June 2, 2021, the State Duma adopted in the third reading the draft of the Federal Law " On Amendments to the Federal Law "On Aquaculture (Fish Farming) and Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation", reports Megafishnet.com.

The State Duma has successfully completed the second reading of a bill that will set the same 10% VAT rate for live freshwater trout as already charged on sea trout, reports Megafishent.com.

Owners of a major fishing company operating from Murmansk have embarked on a big RAS project to farm rainbow trout in Karelia province in Northwest Russia, reports Megafishnet.com.

"Russian Aquaculture" PJSC (Russia’s largest company in the sector of commercial salmon and trout farming) has announced the exercise of an option to purchase the remaining 60% of an up-to-date plant for primary processing of fish in the Murmansk region, reports Megafishnet.com.

Russia’s Federal Agency for Fishery (FAF) and its territorial divisions have announced plans to conduct auctions for 143 aquaculture sites with a total area of 22 thousand hectares in the near future, reports Megafishnet.com.

The Sub-Commission on Customs Tariff and Non-tariff Regulation, Protective Measures in Foreign Trade has proposed to extend zero rates of import customs duties on trout and salmon fry until December 31, 2024, reports Megafishnet.com.

In 2021, the Russian Salmon LLC, the nation’s second largest producer of Atlantic salmon, has joined the list of exhibitors at SEAFOOD EXPO RUSSIA exhibition, as after the big loss of fish in 2015 the giant is restocking its farms in a big way again, reports Megafishnet.com.

The Board of Directors of Russian Aquaculture Company (RA), the leading salmonids producer, has recommended to the General Meeting of Shareholders to make a decision on the payment of dividends, reports Megafishnet.com.

A marine fish – breeding site off the coast of Sakhalin in the Aniva Bay has been put up for electronic auction, reports Megafishnet.com.