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President of Nakhodka-based BAMR-ROLIZ Group Pyotr Savchuk has given a big interview to Fishing News International disclosing further ambitious plans to boost sustainability, exports and fleet renewal, a spokeswoman of the combine told http://www.fishnet-russia.com/ (https://www.fishnet.ru/ ).

Organizers hope that the forthcoming event will see a greater participation of Russian fish businesses in the most influential Fishery & Seafood show in East China, a spokesman of the organizing company told http://www.fishnet-russia.com/ (https://www.fishnet.ru/ ).

As per 13 January 2009 the fresh frozen fish market situation has been marked by a number of changes, market players based in Murmansk told http://www.fishnet-russia.com/ (https://www.fishnet.ru/)

The results of fishery operations in the Russian Far East in January 2009 will depend both on managerial aspects and weather conditions. Forecasters say that the atmospheric processes over the Basin's seas will be cold and moderately cold with domination of north and northeast winds, fishery sources in Vladivostok told http://www.fishnet-russia.com/ (https://www.fishnet.ru/)

According to the provisional figures, in December 2008 the total harvest in the Russian Far East Basin amounted to ca.157,300 tonnes, 27,300 down on 184,600 tonnes harvested in December 2007, fishery sources in Vladivostok told http://www.fishnet-russia.com/ (https://www.fishnet.ru/)

The Russian market has been always remarkable for its stable demand for canned fish. From the Soviet times Russia has been showing a traditional range of canned fish items steadily available in retail outlets. Such range includes canned herring, mackerel, horse mackerel, saury, sardine, pink salmon, sprat, etc, according to the study produced by http://www.fishnet-russia.com/ (https://www.fishnet.ru/)

FISHNET Ltd has completed a study of Russian canned seafood importation in 2004-2007, according to http://www.fishnet-russia.com/ (https://www.fishnet.ru/ for the Russian audience).

Leading seafood importer, exporter and producer in Belarus Santa Bremor has launched the first fishmarket Santa Fish in the centre of Minsk, Belarus capital, to offer customers a whole range of seafood from all over world, reports www.fishnet-russia.com (https://www.fishnet.ru/)

Pollock Fishermen's Association based in Vladivostok made a decision to harvest pollock in the Sea of Okhotsk in 2009 at the level of 2008, namely at 400,000 tonnes at the largest, reports www.fishnet-russia.com (www.fishnet.ru)

Lightly salted trout produced by Santa Bremor (leading fish processor and importer based in Belarus) has been acknowledged the best seafood TM on the Ukrainian market, according to the results of tastings and chemical expertise, reports www.fishnet-russia.com (www.fishnet.ru)

GTP UP Belryba, one of the largest importers and producers of smoked and marinated seafood in Belarus, has won eight awards in a tasting competition supported by Belarus State Certification and Standardization Institute (BelGISS) and MinskExpo, reports www.fishnet-russia.com (www.fishnet.ru)

In Murmansk the Russian-Norwegian working group on fishery management in Spitsbergen met in Murmansk to discuss mostly local problems of the mesh size and the volume of bycatch, reports www.fishnet-russia.com (www.fishnet.ru)

At the sixth session of the Russian-Belarus Fisheries Commission which took place in Kaliningrad in late December 2008 the sides have discussed allocation of capture quotas in the Barents Sea and in the Baltic Sea for the year 2009 to Belarus, reports www.fishnet-russia.com (www.fishnet.ru)

On 18 December 2008 head of Russia's Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Rosselkhoznadzor Sergey Dankvert and deputy director-general of the Directorate-General for Health and Consumer Protection Ms. Paola Testori Coggi signed a traditional memorandum on safety of seafood shipments to Russia, reports www.fishnet-russia.com (https://www.fishnet.ru/)

PM Vladimir Putin has warned Andrey Krainy, head of Russia's Federal Fisheries Agency, to proceed with care when making advice on restricting seafood importation to Russia, reports www.fishnet-russia.com (www.fishnet.ru)

Chinese pollock fillets producers working on the Russian raw material tend to minimize the product price by means of manipulations with protein and product weight, Mikhail Kostenets from Allimpex-Kamchatka wrote at the Russian-language forum of www.fishnet-russia.com (https://www.fishnet.ru/)

As of the 1st of January 2009 according to the Federal Law "On Fishery and Conservation of Aquatic Biological Resources" aquatic biological resources caught (captured) during commercial fishery in the inland waters of the Russian Federation, in the territory of sea of Russia, in the continental shelf of Russia, in the Russian EEZ and the products of their processing shall be delivered on the customs territory of the Russian Federation. It is expected that this will increase supplies of seafood product on the domestic market by 20 - 30% in 2009 as well as increase shipping by railways by 30%, reports http://www.fishnet-russia.com/ (https://www.fishnet.ru/)