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Moscow-based Greentrust Group of companies is making a special focus on product branding. In particular, it has been actively promoting its two labels Sailor and BonDeLaMar on the Russian seafood market.

For the first seven months of 2006 the Russian Federation has increased sales of Alaska pollock fillets to Germany to 16 000 tonnes, 45% up on the same period last year, according to Globefish.

Companies based in the Russian Far East and trained by Japanese technicians have mastered production of frozen pink shrimp Pandalus borealis of high quality for direct consumption in raw form.

In October 2006 the Norwegian spring spawning herring has remained one of the main objects of the Russian fishery in the Norwegian Sea with the bulk of the operators to exhaust the quotas in the Norwegian EEZ during the month.

The Council of Association of Alaska Pollock Harvesters meeting on 19 October 2006 in Vladivostok has approved the draft guidelines for the organization’s future activities and has confirmed Mr.

In terms of volume, the Norwegian spring spawning herring, followed by blue whiting and Barents Sea cod formed the bulk of catch of Murmansk-based and Kaliningrad-based fleets in September 2006 with Murmansk-led North Fisheries Basin traditionally in the lead.

On 15 October 2006 Murmansk crabbers have at long last appeared in daily vessel reports to confirm actual start of the autumn-winter red king crab season in the Barents Sea .

The catch rates in October are expected to go down by 10-20% due to more dispersed cod schools over a large area as compared to September.

As per mid-October 2006 the market in St. Petersburg has seen considerable developments as regards herring and mackerel as compared to a month ago, trading sources told RFR.

Russia ’s Ministry of Agriculture is planning to forward a draft law on aquaculture for consideration in the nation’s government until the end of the current year 2006, according to Minister Aleksey Gordeyev.

In the first eight months of the current year 2006 turnover of fishing and fish farming companies based in Murmansk, which is the main region of the Russian North basin also including Archangelsk, Karelia and Nenets Autonomous District, amounted to RUR12.

Norwegian veterinary inspectors from Kirkenes have been unsatisfied with alleged high temperature of fish landed by Russian trawler Alferas, owner JSC ZAO Murmanseld-2, therefore finding the cargo unfit for sale both on the Norwegian and Russian market, according to www.

By the end of the current year 2006 production of commodity trout in the Republic of Karelia is forecasted to reach 6000 tonnes thus exceeding the last year result by 20%, deputy minister of the republic’s agriculture, fisheries and ecology Ivan Zubarev reported at the meeting of the local governmen...

In the year 2006 capacity of the Russian seafood market has grown by 3% so far. Consumption of shellfish/mollusks/seaweed, fish fillets, smoked and dry-cured fish has been growing ahead of forecasts, the market researchers from the Russian Institute of Agrarian Marketing concluded at the end of the...

In September 2006 the fleet of Kaliningrad-led West Basin worked 745 days at sea and harvested 28,553 metric tons of fish.

At a recent meeting of the Norwegian Food Safety Authority and Russian veterinary authorities the sides have agreed to postpone implementation of new non-falsifiable export certificates for Norwegian seafood from unreachable deadline of October 1 to October 15, according to Russian and foreign media...

In October 2006 the Russian fishermen will continue harvesting Alaska pollock in the Bering Sea, saury in the waters of the South Kuriles and in the international waters, squid in the Kurile waters and in the Bering Sea .

September harvest of the Russian fleets operating in the country’s Far East Basin was contributed by three main expeditions: Alaska Pollock in the Bering Sea, saury and salmon in the waters of South Kuriles and squid in the water of the North Kuriles .

From various trading sources in Russia signals are coming that the demand for scallops has been rising and a market for this dearly item has been emerging especially in the Russian capital.

Production of canned fish and marinated preserves in Kaliningrad region in the current year 2006 is expected to stay on a par with the last year 2005 with the growth rate forecasted at 3-5%, according to Ryba I Moreprodukty.