Russian Fish e-Monthly
21 December 2020
Contents

EDITOR’S NOTE

  • Russian Fish e-Monthly to highlight sector’s opportunities for international business

SECTOR HIGHLIGHTS (IMPORTANT NEWS)

  • Russia and China negotiate COVID-linked seafood trade issues
  • Putin signs law to simplify seafood export VAT refund
  • Government digital platform to help boost Russian exports of processed seafood
  • Russia takes the trouble to ratify the Agreement On Port State Measures
  • Russian national catch progress to November 2020
  • YTD October 2020 Seafood export shows controvercial trends for value and volume
  • McDonald's to source local seafood for new restaurants in the Russian Far East
  • Russian government amended rules for foreign investors deals in strategic industries
  • Fish ports and coldstores to gain from 3 million tonne turnover target
  • Russia to continue fishing off Morocco for another four years
  • Russian government approves foreign labour recruitment quotas for 2021

SEAFOOD SUPPLY FROM RUSSIAN FAR EAST

  • Sales from Russian Far East hit by uncertainties with export to China
  • China bottleneck overshadows prospects for pollock A-season in the Sea of Okhotsk
  • Hearing of dispute between big pollock players postponed
  • 2021 forecast for Russian “A” and “B” pollock seasons
  • Kamchatka and Chukotka fishermen have improved year-on-year catch results
  • Lack of destination diversity exposing RFE exports to fluctuations in external demand
  • Russian Far East companies displaying different priсe, value and volume efficiency in seafood exports

PACIFIC MARKETS

  • Pollock roe auctions in Busan took off with diving prices
  • Prices of South Korean imports of live snow crab on a rise

SEAFOOD SUPPLY FROM MURMANSK-LED NORTH FISHERIES

  • Further constraints hitting Russian and global seafood exports to China
  • Landings surge in Murmansk
  • Barents Sea catch and quota progress to November 2020
  • Norwegian Sea catch and quota progress to November 2020
  • Catch and quota progress in Northeast/Northwest Atlantic and Central East Atlantic to November 2020
  • Baltic Sea catch and quota progress to November 2020
  • Russian fleets winding up herring fishery in Faroese Zone and other areas
  • Progress and outlook for shrimp fishery in Barents Sea in 2020-2021
  • NAFO approved overall TACs and Russia’s fishing quotas for 2021

SEAFOOD IMPORTS AND DOMESTIC MARKET

  • Russian fish and seafood imports for 9 months of 2020
  • Russian seafood imports in January – October 2020
  • Saint-Petersburg market behind usual end-of-year acceleration
  • Moscow salmon and trout market still waiting for season’s rally

VET UPDATE

  • Russian vet control summary in September -November 2020
  • Russia and Egypt Seafood export negotiations
  • Russia getting ready to export seafood to Indonesia

COMPANY UPDATE

  • Onshore plants worth $26 million nearing completion
  • Pilot phase of $40 million crab factory taking off in Murmansk
  • $36 million Fish Market Layout plan finalized in Vladivostok
  • Leading processor announcing plans for big changes in production and distribution

SHIPBUILDING, ONSHORE PLANTS AND REFURBISHMENT

  • Turkish yard delivers first supertrawler to Russia’s major pollock harvester
  • Seventh factory trawler laid for NOREBO Group at Northern shipyard
  • Newbuilds for non-TAC and low margin species to get 30% refund
  • YANTAR Yard moves newbuilding trawler to open slipway
  • Good business in Russia for Baader despite COVID-19
  • Newbuilding wet fish trawler to help boost fillet production
  • Massive newbuilding program for Magadan-based company in Turkey and Russia
  • Second factory trawler laid for Atlantrybflot
  • Second crabber laid for Russia’s biggest crab quota holder
  • Third seiner-trawler delivered to customer in the Russian Far East

AQUACULTURE

  • Marine culture surging in the Russian Far East to chase huge potential
  • Big rise for Russia’s production of Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout
  • Aquaculture sites distribution by electronic auction set for expansion
  • Russian fish farmers getting extra protection through subsidized insurance

APPENDIX 1: Fairs and Exhibitions

  • Peterfood held in unusual format
  • Russian seafood fairs 2021

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