The European Seafood Exposition in Brussels was formally opened this morning and continues until Thursday. Among those participating are a 15-strong team from HB Grandi. Alongside the Seafood Exposition itself, a sister event, Seafood Processing Europe, is being held as the platform for companies providing equipment or offering services to the seafood processing industry, reports www.megafishnet.com with reference to HB Grandi.

As Russia is close to joining WTO, authorities at last started to think how to keep tax collection after transition period and cutting import taxes and tariffs. One of possible ways is to increase the added value, e.g. by development of domestic processing. It's a good reason to discuss what we could do to increase production of value added products (particularly - fish) in Russia, an industry insider shared his views on the subject with http://www.megafishnet.com/

Russia's Federal Fisheries Agency has officially published final results of the nation's fishing sector in 2011, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/ with reference to Head of Analytical information agency on fisheries Timur Mitupov.

Representatives of Russia's Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor), Norwegian Food Safety Authority (Mattilsynet) and public organizations uniting fish market participants have recently met to discuss a number of issues, for instance, shipments of Norwegian seafood to Russia, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/

The Russian herring market which has been stable for a long time showed some negative processes in 2011 and the basic factors forming the dynamics have not only retained in 2012 but even grown stronger, the conclusion has been made by FISHNET analysts (http://www.megafishnet.com/, http://www.fishnet.ru/) who have studied trends of raw fish supply, capture, export and import.

Russia's fishery industry has continued showing a positive trend in all its social and economic indices, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/

Russia's Fish Union (organization uniting importers and other market players advocating development of competition) has supported traceability and certification plan initiated by the nation's Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor), reports http://www.megafishnet.com/

In early March 2012 leaders of Russia's Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) and the Fish Union signed a cooperation agreement aimed at making the system of veterinary control more transparent, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/

Brussels, Belgium - (12 March, 2012) - The 20th edition of the European Seafood Exposition (ESE) and 14th edition of Seafood Processing Europe (SPE) will be held in Brussels, Belgium, between Tuesday 24 and Thursday 26 April. These global events will assemble seafood buyers and sellers from throughout the world with over 1,600 companies from more than 70 exhibiting countries

The main developments in February have covered Icelandic and Faroese mackerel quotas, progress on jack mackerel measures, rapid alerts for consignments of fishery products and many other issues as summarized below.

An innovative new welfare-friendly and humane fish harvesting system is likely to prove a focal point of interest for fish farmers and seafood processors visiting the forthcoming ‘Fishing, Aquaculture and Seafood Expo - from Sea to Plate' that will be staged in Glasgow, Scotland, in March 2012, reports www.megafishnet.com.

Russia's Federal Agency for Fisheries has summarized provisional results of the industry's operations in 2011, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/

Russia's Government has introduced a number of amendments into the federal target program on the nation's fishery industry development, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/

We are pleased to advise that we have published our Sortable E-Guide of Russian Company Offshore Quotas 2005-2012.

Russia's Federal Statistics Service (Rosstat) has published "Russian statistics yearbook 2001" covering data on the nation's social and economic position in 2010, seafood export and import statistics inclusive, as compared to previous years, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/

Seafood processors and equipment suppliers will have a unique opportunity to showcase their products to the UK market at the newly extended ‘Fishing, Aquaculture and Seafood Expo - from Sea to Plate' that is being staged in Glasgow, Scotland, in March 2012.

Professional media have recently written a lot how nice it is that Akros (major Kamchatka-based harvester with more than 50 000 tonnes of Pollock quota) had decided to join Pollock Catchers Association. We want to say something about it too.

Board of directors of non-commercial partnership ECR Russia uniting trade chains and producers of consumer goods has officially supported a draft concept on implementation of national system of seafood origin and transportation traceability which has been earlier developed by the Fish Union, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/

FISHNET analysts produced a statistics report on Russia's fish and seafood import in January-September 2009-2011 which is now available for download by subscribers to the Russian Fish Insider Report in the Publications section of http://www.megafishnet.com/

Government of Saint Petersburg has approved a project on construction of a ship building complex in the island of Kotlin. The shipyard is to be built by 2019, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/