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CITES Secretariat has approved the following quotas 2007 for export of products from Russian sturgeon harvested in the Caspian Sea ...

In the year 2007 the shrimp capture quotas have been increased nearly in all the zones and subareas of the Russian Far East.

Up through 25th January the blue whiting fishery in the northeast Atlantic was conducted by the Russians only within the Faeroese fishing zone.

The Russian herring fishery off the Lofoten Islands started three weeks later than the Norwegian fishery.

As per early February there were 339 fishing vessels reporting daily catches at 6000-7600 tonnes.

As compared to the recent three years the total harvest of aquatic biological stocks in the seas of the Russian Far East Basin in January 2007 has grown 1.7-fold ...

As compared to the recent three years the total harvest of aquatic biological stocks in the seas of the Russian Far East Basin in January 2007 has grown 1.7-fold exceeding the level of 100,000 tonnes.

Kaliningrad-based OOO Maritime Star is the only in Russia fishing company running a tuna fleet.

JSC ZAO Russian Sea is planning to place five-year bonds totally worth RUR2 billion via public subscription

Murmansk to farm non-traditional species

Delegates from Russia, Norway, EU, Iceland and Faeroese Islands took part in the third round of consultations on fishery management of the Atlanto-Scandian (spring-spawning) herring.

Commissioned in Vladivostok in November 2006 JSC ZAO Dalnevostochnyi Khladokombinat cold store is gathering momentum as the most up-to-date complex for storage of frozen meat, fish, poultry, chilled and frozen semi-processed products, fruits and vegetables.

At recent herring negotiations Russia, Norway, Iceland, Faeroese Islands and EU have agreed on new requirements for seafood supplies to the European ports to be in force as of 1 May 2007.

Moscow scientists have drafted the TACs in the Russian EEZ of the Far East Basin for the year 2008.

In January 2007 BAMR Management Company celebrated its first year of steering the RFE's largest APO quota holder OAO NBAMR (plc) ...

In the year 2007 Alaska pollock Harvesters Association is planning to help implement legislation concerning rated APO roe yield because high yield figures will in fact conceal unreported young pollock discards.

Russian scientists say that weather changes are going to lead not only to increased runs of salmons to Sakhalin and the Kuriles, but along all the entire coastline of the Russian Far East as well.

It appears that the Russian Ministry of Agriculture is irreversibly committed to implementation of its policy of food imports from approved producers only in the foreseeable future with the geography of inspections of foreign plants continuously extended.

FISHNET updated Sortable E-Guide of Russian Company Quotas 2007 for research fishery

OAO HC Dalmoreproduct (plc), once the largest fishing companies in the Russian Far East which has been hit by serious problems in the recent years, says that its economic situation has stabilized and there are prerequisites for its recovery.