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The Kashrut department at the Main Rabbinate in Russia has granted the kosher certificate to 8 kinds of caviar, produced by Russian Sea Company, a leading processor with head office in Moscow.
Four-year-old Zapovednoe scientific and production mariculture centre based in the Kievka Bay of Primorsky Krai Territory (capital Vladivostok) has grown 1.5 million young sea cucumbers to be later released to the grounds of the centre's marine plantations and to the experimental production grounds of the TINRO-Centre research institute.
The deadline for supplies of pelagic fish only from the Norwegian plants approved by Russia's Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Rosselkhoznadzor has been postponed from 15 November 2007 to 15 December 2007.
Russian Sea Company, one of the largest producers of seafood products in Russia, has launched a brand new type of preserves - marinated capelin roe in delicacy sauces under the label "Umaisagi" to be distributed in supermarket chains.
OOO Akvakorm (ltd), a daughter company of a large supplier of mixed fodder of OAO Lenkhleboprodukt (plc), has launched a trout farm in the Lodeinopol District of Leningrad Oblast surrounding Saint Peterburg.
In a drive to satisfy growing consumer demand for exotic fish, Saint-Petersburg-based fish processing combine ROK-5 has launched a range of tilapia products, both chilled and frozen.
In the recent couple of years farmed fish production in Krasnodarsky Krai Territory on the Black Sea coast of Russia has displayed certain positive trends.
The Republic of Komi in the north of Russia will farm more than 600 metric tons of market-size fish in 2007 with the production output expected to grow twice-fold to 1200 tonnes by the year 2010.
Russian catch in the nation's Far East Fisheries Basin as per 30 October 2007
In late October 2007 the Barents Sea project office of the Russian department of the Wild World Fund conducted an international seminar on sustainable fishery in Murmansk.
In the fourth week of October 2007 Russia's registered catch in provisional figures the North Atlantic and Central Eastern Atlantic amounted to 11,200 metric tons, 1700 tonnes down on the result of the previous week.
In the near future the Russian State Fisheries Committee is planning to apply to the Federal Property Agency Rosimuschetsvo in order to merge Russia's fishery research establishments under FGUP VNIRO fishery research institute by means of incorporating all the industry's institutes under its umbrella.
The State Fisheries Committee is planning to bring back GUP National Center of Quality and Safety of Fishery Products (National Fish Quality for short) which has been performing a number functions of fish veterinary control under the umbrella of the Ministry of Agriculture.
At the recent 36th meeting of the Mixed Russian-Norwegian Fisheries Commission the parties have examined the scientific data on the condition of the capelin stock to conclude that the spawning stock is now at a low level due to natural fluctuations of the abundance.
As per 31 October 2007 the fresh frozen fish market is being marked by some changes..
Russia's Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Rosselkhoznadzor has announced that as of 15 November 2008 Russia will import Norwegian pelagic fish from Russia-approved plants only.
At the recent 36th session of the Mixed Russian-Norwegian Fisheries Commission the sides have discussed results of cod and haddock fisheries in the Barents Sea in 2006-2007 and agreed to set the TAC of arctic cod and inshore cod in the year 2008 at ...
The next year allocations for the red king crab fishery have been made public at the recent 36th meeting of the Mixed Russian-Norwegian Fisheries Commission.
The government will compensate two thirds of the interest rates of the commercial loans for the industry.
With the current term of five-year quota shares for commercial fishery expiring in 2008, Russia's State Fisheries Committee is stepping up efforts to draft quota allocation policy for the period beyond the deadline.