Results of Russian salmon season 2008 still need further update

February 19, 2009 16:41

Though the salmon season 2008 in the Russian Far East was closed long time ago, the fishery results have still remained non-finalized, reports www.fishnet-russia.com (www.fishnet.ru) with reference to fishery sources in Vladivostok.

According to company reports, the inshore salmon harvest amounted to 232,200 tonnes, which could be broken into the following areas and species:

Fishing species

Total catch

West Bering Sea zone

East Kamchatka

North Kuriles

South Kuriles

Sea of Okhotsk

Sea of Japan

Total

232.2

3.3

30.6

3.1

45.9

135.2

9.7

Of which

Pink salmon

144.2

-

7.1

-

32.2

98.4

5.1

Chum salmon

52.7

2.0

11.3

1.0

13.7

17.7

3.9

Sockeye

29.6

1.2

9.3

1.7

-

16.9

-

Coho salmon

3.3

-

1.5

0.1

-

1.3

-

Meanwhile, according to fishery media reports, the total harvest of salmons (both offshore and inshore) amounted to 272,000 tonnes of which 252,000 tonnes were harvested in the inshore waters and 19,800 tonnes caught in the offshore waters by the fleet, including 11,600 tonnes by the Russian fleet and 8200 tonnes by the Japanese fleet.

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