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The Japanese holidays have passed, and all the market players met in Busan to define the destiny of Russian pollock roes. The sellers didn't care about holidays in Russia, and sold almost six thousand tons, enormous volume. Small doubt on the last day some buyers were simply short of money to give a proper price, reports www.megafishnet.com.

In Q1 2012 Russian importers purchased on the world market ***,*** MT of seafood products at the total value of nearly RUR **.* billion

In Q1 2012 Russian importers purchased on the world market ***,*** MT of seafood products at the total value of nearly RUR **.* billion...

In January-March 2012 601 foreign companies supplied seafood products to the Russian market. Leading supplier in volume terms was Norway Pelagic

In January-March 2012 601 foreign companies supplied seafood products to the Russian market. Leading supplier in value terms was Norway Pelagic

In Q1 2012 top30 of Russian importers of seafood (in value terms) also showed some important changes...

In Q1 2012 top30 of Russian importers of seafood (in volume terms) showed some important changes. More specifically, former outsiders pushed some leaders from top5...

In March 2012 Russian importers activated their purchases of seafood products on the world market with the import volume through the month amounting to ***,*** MT, almost the same as in the first two months of the year (***,*** MT)

In April 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 March 2012. The contribution of Kaliningrad-based vessels amounted to ca.**%, reports www.megafishnet.com.

A potential 10-fold increase of Russia's TAC for Olyutorsk herring, which thanks to its high quality is regarded an ideal alternative for Atlantic herring imported as raw material for further processing, has made Russian fishermen plan to boost sales on the domestic market, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/

Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) has summarized results of the nation's aquaculture sector in 2011 and confirmed positive trends in farmed fish production, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/ with reference to VNIRO.

As Russia is close to joining WTO, authorities at last started to think how to keep tax collection after transition period and cutting import taxes and tariffs. One of possible ways is to increase the added value, e.g. by development of domestic processing. It's a good reason to discuss what we could do to increase production of value added products (particularly - fish) in Russia, an industry insider shared his views on the subject with http://www.megafishnet.com/

Export from Russian Far East in April 2012 have been driven by pollock products and herring, reports www.megafishnet.com.

Potential ban of chilled seafood imports from Norway as threatened by Russia's Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) has not been introduced as per 19 April 2012, though it is not clear if the restrictions are really going to take place, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/