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Russia's total harvest in the North Atlantic exceeded 90,000 tonnes in June 2007, more than 6000 tonnes up on the result of May 2007.

VTB Bank has announced it is setting up a bank pool to place bonds of JSC ZAO Russian Sea known as the country's leading importer and processor operating in tandem with Russian Fish Company.

At a recent press-conference of INTERFAX agency Russia's Minister of Agriculture Alexey Gordeyev has urged his Japanese colleagues to establish ...

Kamchatka-based fishing artel Kolkhoz Krasnyi Truzhenik was awarded the title of Russia's Best Exporter 2006 at the recent ceremony held in Moscow under the aegis of the nation's Ministry of Economic Development and Trade and Vnesheconombank.

Ledovo label owned by Ledovo Group of Companies, which is one of Russia's leading producers of shellfish/mollusks, frozen products and mushrooms is celebrating its ten-year anniversary with the product range and sales under the TM continuously growing.

According to an official release of Rosselkhoznadzor dated 2 July 2007, Russia's Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Rosselkhoznadzor held talks with the Thai Embassy which has approached the Russian agency for the negotiations on its own initiative.

According to Dalkrevetka Shimpers' Association, the fishery of pink shrimp and coonstripe shrimp is conducted by 68 companies.

Russia's Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Rosselkhoznadzor has specified dates of mutual checks of foreign plants willing to export seafood to Russia and Russian seafood exporters and informed about the results of the checks which have been already conducted as per early July 2007.

From Tuesday 24th April to Thursday 26th April 2007, the 15th European Seafood Exposition was held in Brussels, Belgium.

In the year 2006 the capacity of the Russian seafood market increased by 15% to ca.400 billion RUR accounting for 8% of the nation's total turnover of food products, according to an estimate of Timur Mitupov, head of Investment-Analytical Group of OOO Norge-Fish (ltd).

Vladivostok-based fishing companies OAO Nakhodka BAMR (plc) and JSC ZAO Roliz, which are members of Association of Fishing Companies of Primorye, have made it a point of policy to stand for sustainable and responsible fishery and farsighted approach in the sphere of ecology.

Prefect of Moscow's North Administrative District Vladimir Obyedkov and Magadan's mayor Vladimir Pechenyi have signed an agreement on trade-economic cooperation.

According to an official release of Rosselkhoznadzor dated 27 June 2007, Russia's Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Rosselkhoznadzor held talks with the Japanese Embassy which has approached the Russian agency for the negotiations on its own initiative.

At its stand at Seafood Russia 2007 Polyarnaya Zvezda (Pole Star) Fishing Co-op based in Stavropol in the south of Russia demonstrated its capacities in the sphere of fish farming.

At the fourth international exhibition Seafood Russia 2007 held in early June in Moscow MORE (Sea) Group of Companies exhibited products from Pacific crabs under the TM Okhotsky Breeze.

At its stand at Seafood Russia 2007 Nesse-Petersburg ltd has presented some of its own developments in the sphere of fish processing as well as a whole range of food additives, spice mixes and technological preparations for manufacture of various fish products.

Russia's Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Rosselkhoznadzor has announced that as of 1 June 2007 import of finfish and shellfish products from Iceland will be carried out ...

The below table shows that introduction of the low quota regime and the fishery ban in the West Kamchatka shelf have produced positive results.

Saint Petersburg-based Fregat Company is planning to build a crab sticks factory in Novgorod, the Great, about 300 km southeast of Saint Petersburg, with the facility's design capacity amounting to 1000 tonnes of products per month.

The forecast of the TACs 2008 in the Russian Far East amended by the industry's Council on Fishery Forecasts in April 2007 was submitted for public discussion in mid-June 2007.