Fish industry news
At the Admiralty shipyards (St. Petersburg) a ceremony of launching the third vessel "Mechanic Sizov '' of the supertrawler series for the Russian Fishery Company (RFC) took place. The ceremony was attended by President Putin, who briefly watched the launching of the vessel from his boat. Vladimir Putin visited St-Petersburg mainly to take part in the naval parade dedicated to the 325-year anniversary of the Russian Navy while watching the launch of the supertrawler was an event to highlight the growing contribution of the naval yards to civilian shipbuilding, reports Megafishnet.com.
On July 23, the fourth crab-catcher of the 5712LS design was laid at the Onega Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Plant to the order of the largest Far Eastern crab-fishing company the "Russian Crab Group '', reports Megafishnet.com.
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, who on Monday, July 26, 2021 began a working trip to the Far East and Siberia, visited the Yasny fish processing complex on Iturup Island, reports Megafishnet.com.
Since the start of the year to July 22, 2021, the Rosselkhoznadzor Administration for the Kamchatka Territory and the Chukotka Autonomous District has issued 2,415 veterinary certificates for 65,848 tons of fish products as the above goods from Kamchatka producers have been sent to 18 countries, reports Megafishnet.com.
In the period from January to June of the current year, Russian Crab Company Group used 57% of the annual amount of crab quotas that it owned in 2021. The company’s harvest for the period is 7.4K tons of crab, according to the company’s mid-July release.
The harvesting of artemia is a promising business for the Russian fishery sector but for its sustainable development, it is necessary, first of all, to solve the problems with illegal fishing and trafficking of valuable crustaceans. This was stated by the executive director of the All-Russian Association of Fishermen and Exporters (VARPE) Igor Karpman at a recent meeting with government agencies on the prospects of commercial use of artemia, reports Megafishnet.com.
The Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation is preparing to list snow crab opilio of the Kara Sea, the Barents Sea northern shrimp and the pike perch of the Rybinsk reservoir as species to be managed by TAC, reports Megafishnet.com.
Scientists of VNIRO (the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography) have prepared a forecast "Saury, sardine, mackerel -2021" for the pelagic season in the Russian Far East, reports Megafishnet.com.
The Norebo Group (Russia’s leading harvester and processor of whitefish) is planning to build four modern longline boats under the investment quotas scheme. The holding is also mulling more vessels to obtain extra pollock and herring investment quotas, reports Megafishnet.com.
Sistema Public Joint Stock Financial Corporation with the Russian billionaire Vladimir Yevtushenkov as main owner has purchased its first asset in the fishing business, reports Megafishnet.com.
Following the results of the Innoprom-2021 exhibition, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin gave instructions to reform the market of the automatic design systems (CAD) in shipbuilding, reports Megafishnet.com.
PJSC Russian Aquaculture, the largest Russian company in the commercial fish farming (aquaculture) sector, has published the data of unaudited management reports for the first half of 2021, reports Megafishnet.com.
Russia’s vet watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor and the Institute of Veterinary Service of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries of the Republic of Angola have agreed on veterinary certificates for the export of milk and dairy products, food fish, seafood and finished products thereof from Russia to Angola, reports Megafishnet.com.
Deliveries of fish in bulk to China as was typical for the Russian suppliers until recently, are unlikely to resume in the same volumes, reports Megafishnet.com.
The second stage of crab quota auctions is likely to unroll in 2023. Other valuable species are also planned to be put up for auction with investment obligations, reports Megafishnet.com.
We are pleased to inform that we have just published the July issue of Russian Fish e-Monthly which is edited by Mr. Andrey Buzin, a seafood professional with a background of senior positions in Russia’s leading fishing companies.
Far Eastern fishermen have off-season of a kind this month, reports Megafishnet.com.
The season is over, long live the season - our American colleagues might say, who collect almost all the roe, found in fish. For Russian fishermen, for whom the production of everything is determined by above-specified coefficients, to recognize today's pollock as contenting roe automatically means to hit the volume of fillet and HG production. Therefore, roe women go on vacation, and trawlers go to maintainance.
Shipbuilding for Russian fishing fleet became quite active just about three years ago, and by today a few ships have been handed over to customers, calmly surfing waters and performing the tasks assigned to them in terms of catch. However, there are still many trawlers, seiners, longliners, and crabbers on the slipways, near the quay walls, completing construction or awaiting trials. Megafishnet will look at what shipyards they are being built and what happens to them based on a report prepared by Korabel.ru and own expertise.
As per mid-July 2021 the wholesale market at St. Petersburg (Russia’s main entry port for imported seafood) is displaying declining prices for mackerel originating from the Faroe Islands, reports Megafishnet.com.