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On October 14, the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) and its Atlantic branch held a video conference between experts from VNIRO and the Institute of Oceanography of Mozambique (OIM) in order to agree on a preliminary program of joint research in the Mozambique zone during the Great African Expedition 2024-2026.
Russia’s Pacific salmon catch 2024 is forecasted at ca.250-260 thousand metric tons, according to Ilya Shestakov, head of the Federal Agency for Fisheries (Rosrybolovstvo).
Mid-June trend on tilapia market in China
Laplandia Market, a Finnish hypermarket chain, is considering options for launching its own retail store in St. Petersburg for trading imported products and household goods.
Russia on holiday until 9 January 2024.
From January 1 to December 15, 2023, exports of fish and seafood from Russia amounted to 2.08 million metric tons, according to the customs statistics and the Rosselkhoznadzor's Argus information system.
The Chinese authorities have allowed the supply of wild fish from Russia.
China’s General Customs Administration has expanded the list of Russian seafood entities approved for export to the country.
Rosselkhoznadzor and the Main Customs Administration of the People's Republic of China signed a protocol to expand the list of fish products that can be supplied from Russia to China.
X5 Group, the leading food retail company in Russia, held a meeting with the Fish Union which unites Russian seafood producers and processors.
The coastal facilities in the Russian Far East can process up to one million metric tons of Alaska pollock. In particular, the Kuril Islands show a great processing potential.
A new large wholesale distribution center with a coldstore will be built in the Solnechnogorsk city district (Moscow region).
Vlaidostok-led Primorskiy Krai Territory will raise its coldstorage capacity by 37,000 metric tons with a new wholesale distribution center that is being built now.
One of Russia’s biggest fishery holdings Norebo is going to refuse the services of Northern Shipyard (Severnaya Verf) in St. Petersburg (part of the State United Shipbuilding Corporation, USC) to complete the construction of its four trawlers at its own shipyard.
Russian Largest Transport and Logistics Company – FESCO Transportation Group – for the first time in the nation’s history delivered live crab from Moscow to Vladivostok in an innovative aquacontainer.
Scientists of Azov-Black Sea branch of VNIRO (AzNIIRKH) have created a unique database on Antarctic krill biology and fishery. According to Russia’s Federal Agency for Fishery (Rosrybolovstvo), the information base will become an actual tool when Russian fishermen resume krill fishing and processing. Work on the development of large-scale krill fishing has been carried out by Rosrybolovstvo together with the industry community over the past years.
Russia for the for the first time in history overtook the United States in pollock fillet production, as last year local fishermen increased the production by 16.8% to 139,000 tons, according to the Russian Pollock Association (ADM).
One of Russia’s biggest mobile operator MegaFon has built communication facilities in the Barents Sea for one of the key Russian companies in the commercial fish farming sector.
The Interregional Association "Longline Fishery" has extended the validity of its MSC certificate to four additional fishing areas for Pacific cod.
On December 20, 2022, at the plenary session of the State Duma, the law on the second stage of investment quotas and crab auctions with investment obligations was adopted in the second and third readings. Amendments are being made to the federal law "On Fisheries and Conservation of Aquatic Biological Resources".