Fish industry news
The Board of Directors of Russia’s fishery research institutes meeting in late March have produced advice for an increased TAC of the red king crab and snow crab opilio in the Barents Sea in 2021, reports Megafishnet.com.
The authorities of Sevastopol, a city with a region’s powers and a naval base in Crimea, have developed a project to create a fishing and processing cluster in this important fishery area in the south of Russia, reports Megafishnet.com.
The former governor of Primorye province (capital Vladivostok) and now President of "TIGER" Company Sergey Darkin has announced commissioning of a 12 thousand ton coldstore in Nakhodka to help with catch storage in a situation when COVID-19 restrictions from China have created a bottleneck for the Russian seafood exports to PRC, reports Megafishnet.com.
Since the beginning of 2021 and as per Mid-March, the Rosselkhoznadzor Administration for the Primorsky Territory and the Sakhalin Region has issued veterinary certificates for export shipments of fish and seafood for a total volume of 203.5 thousand metric tons, reports Megafishnet.com.
On March 18th, 2021, the keel of the first crabber-processor was laid for the Russian Crab Company (RCC) at the Oka river Shipyard in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region, reports Megafishnet.com.
Among other issues, in late March the Board of Directors of Russia’s fishery research institutes have discussed projections for pollock TAC 2022 and long-term trends for the stock’s abundance, reports Megafishnet.com.
The chairman of the Fish Union (FU), Alexander Panin, took part in two meetings in the Federation Council and the Federal Agency for Fisheries dedicated to the so-called "regulatory guillotine", the project initiated by the government to slash obsolete legislation in the country, reports Megafishnet.com.
The largest crab harvester of the Russian Far East — the Russian Crab Company (RCC) has joined the Russia-China Business Council to better develop the big potential of the Chinese crab market, reports Megafishnet.com.
Iceland's Directorate of Fisheries Fiskistofa reports about total catches as registered in the national quota system.
A week a little below the regular from the blue whiting field into the international zone with 29,500 tonnes in the record. This is divided into 23 catches from 300 - 1,950t, which gives an average of just under 1,300.
A project for the construction of an export-import agro-logistics complex and the creation of a fish exchange on the Nazimov Peninsula near Vladivostok is being implemented by the Eurasian Fish Center LLC with the backing of the federal authorities, reports Megafishnet.com.
As long as more and more pollock is taken out of the sea of Okhotsk, delivery problems are becoming grave, reports Megafishnet.com.
As per early March the wholesale market of St-Petersburg (Russia’s main entry port for imported seafood) was facing delays with arrival of some fish products such as blue whiting and pangasius fillets, reports Megafishnet.com.
In first week of March the Russian Atlantic fisheries displayed mixed results in line with the earlier trends depending on the areas and species such as cod, haddock, snow crab, blue whiting etc., reports Megafishnet.com.
Fresher trawler Helga Maria was due to dock in Reykjavík at midday yesterday. According to skipper Friðleifur Einarsson, they have been fishing mainly south of the Reykjanes peninsula this trip, which turned out to be all about steering clear of the species they aren’t supposed to be catching, reports Brim.
As the Chinese market constraints continue to hit the pollock season in the Russian Far East, the fishermen are putting more effort into herring received by the market with an increasing favour. Despite the problems, the trading sources from the region describe the current situation as stable in terms of demand for the entire species range with several items displaying rising prices, reports Megafishnet.com.
Iceland's Directorate of Fisheries Fiskistofa reports about total catches as registered in the national quota system.
The NVG herring fishery went towards the end of last week. The blue whiting fields also had a calmer fishing pace this week.
Deliveries of live Russian-caught king crab to South Korea at the beginning of 2021, in contrast to the supply of live snow crab, were noticeably more active than last year, and the price level was significantly higher than in January 2020. The Norwegian deliveries displayed an even more serious growth and also at much higher prices. Meanwhile, the supply of cheap Chinese products, mainly swimming crab, significantly decreased, but also with strongly higher prices, reports Megafishnet.com.
The shipment of fish products from the stations of the Far Eastern Railway (a subsidiary of JSC Russian Railways) in the western direction in January–February of this year decreased by 7% compared to the same period last year, namely, to 82.8 thousand tons, reports Megafishnet.com.