Russian Fish e-Monthly No.7 (178) July 20, 2011

INSIDER COMMENT ON INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENTS
Export from Russian Far East in July dominated by issues of salmon and Pollock sales
DOMESTIC HIGHLIGHTS MONITOR
Huge cod quotas of auctioned Russian fishing combine wetting investors’ appetites
Murmansk Fish Port on privatization agenda
MSC certifiers and strong Russian team meeting in Vladivostok to proceed on Russia’s Pollock fishery
Russian government officials and importers to discuss fish import regulations at “Fish and Seafood” Round Table
Russian PM Vladimir Putin paid attention to railway tariffs for domestic seafood deliveries and some positive developments on national fish market
Russian fleets to renew fishing operations in Latin America as of 2012
COMPANY UPDATE
Spanish sturgeon farm Piscifactoría de Sierra Nevada exporting black caviar to Russia
Russian Sea Group announces a change in ownership of its major shareholder
AQUACULTURE HIGHLIGHTS
Investors to pour $100 million into sturgeon caviar production complex in Russia’s Astrakhan province
Aquaculture around St. Petersburg to move forward at greater rate
Russia boosting number of farms for sturgeon caviar production
Russia to launch another big sturgeon farm
SUPPLY FROM RUSSIAN FAR EAST
Outlook for Russia’s salmon catch from new season in the Russian Far East complicated by expected rush of Chinese buyers
Russian pollock fishermen getting additional capture quota to defy South Korea bid
Fishery scientists making pollock TAC corrections and TAC projections for forthcoming saury season and in the Russian Far East
Overview of key markets for fish products from Russian and American Pacific fisheries in 1st ten days of July 2011
Overview of seafood exports from Russian Far East in May 2011
SUPPLY FROM NORTH AND WEST FISHERY BASINS
Overview of Russian fisheries in North and Central Atlantic in June 2011
Russian-flagged giant mothership Lafayette to klondyke for mackerel in Faroese zone
VET UPDATE
Russian vet control summary
APPENDIX 1: Catches of Russian fishing companies in June 2009-2011
APPENDIX 2: Catches of Russian fishing companies in nation’s EEZ in January-June 2010-2011
APPENDIX 3: Onboard production of seafood by Russian fishing companies in June 2009-2011