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March 2008 catches in the Russian Far East will be dominated by Okhotsk pollock.
The bulk of Russian catches in February 2008 was contributed by the stocks of the Sea of Okhotsk.
Kaliningrad-based Federal State Unitary Institution "Atlantic Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography" (AtlantNIRO) has developed a wide range of new production technologies...
Russian companies' quotas for commercial offshore fisheries in 2008 have been decreased by 17,000 metric tons as compared to quotas 2007.
Russia's seafood market in HoReCa sector has remained one of the most dynamically developing markets with the exotic fish remaining popular and chilled fish displaying increasing sales volumes.
The supply outlook for Russian king crab is quite bleak for this year with the fishery in Murmansk ending on a downward note and prospects in the Russian Far East uncertain but surely not improving.
La Maree Company has been announced "Best HoReCa Supplier 2007" in the competition conducted by Menu.Ru in late February 2008.
As a result of joint cooperation of the local administration, frontier department of Russia's Federal Security Service, marine ports and Primorye Fishermen Association, Primorsky Krai Territory (capital Vladivostok) has authorized more ports for clearance of the local vessels for multiple border crossing.
The situation on bottomfish grounds in the Barents Sea is expected to remain on a par with February 2008.
According to provisional figures, in February 2008 the total harvest of Russian vessels in the North Atlantic and Central Eastern Atlantic amounted to 62,400 tonnes.
Association of Khabarovsk Fishermen uniting more than 70 businesses based in the region is consolidating its distribution power in Russia's European part.
The Wild Salmon Center based in Portland, the USA, and Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd. have signed an agreement for joint financing of a three-year program on preserving the wild salmon on Sakhalin Island.
In 2007 Sakhalin factories produced 41,728,000 nominal cans of fish (ca.325 grams), accounting for 82.5% of the level of 2006.
In the near future restaurants of the Ukraine's capital city of Kiev will use more frozen shellfish and mollusks.
Distribution of new 10-year quota shares shall be carried out well before the end of the year 2008 so that the Russian fishermen could have time to prepare for the fishing operations in 2009.
Primorsky Krai Territory (capital Vladivostok) displayed a 6% increase of catches of aquatic biological resources to *** tonnes in 2007.
In 2008 the Russian Federation is planning to sell a whole number of port assets.