Fish industry news
The new Strategy for Combating Illegal Trade in Industrial Products in the Russian Federation for the period up to 2025 was approved by the Government Decree No. 256 of February 6, 2021. The previous strategy was valid for the period up to 2020, reports Megafishnet.com.
The TAD «Kurily» (the territory of advanced social and economic development in the Kurile Islands) will be expanded to carry out new investment projects associated with the fish sector. The respective order was signed by Russia’s PM Mikhail Mishustin on February 20, 2021, reports Megafishnet.com.
Online fish trade has been fast growing in Russia. Now it is moving from online chains and dedicated fish shops to e-commerce market places where multiple suppliers offer an unlimited range of fish products, reports Megafishnet.com.
LLC Ladesol-Tambov Uvarovo from the Tambov region (ca.400km south-southeast of Moscow) acquired a RUR400mln loan from MSP-bank in order to complete construction of a new feed protein plant, reports Megafishnet.com.
In line with its strategy of developing infrastructure Murmansk Sea Fish Port prepared sites for storage of refrigerated containers, reports Megafishnet.com.
Scientists from the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography VNIRO are going to use artificial intelligence and drones to simplify surveys of Pacific salmon stocks, reports Megafishnet.com.
St.Petersburg-based Northern Shipyard (Severnaya Verf) laid the eight freezing trawler-processor Captain Korotich ordered by JSC Akros (part of the NOREBO Group), report Megafishnet.com.
Businesses based in Kamchatka have big plans for 2021 as regards new fish processing factories and fishing vessels, reports Megafishnet.com.
Russia has published the results for fish products output in January 2021, reports Megafishnet.com.
Critics claim that the main stake of the Russia’s Federal Agency for Fisheries on pollock processing at sea is wrong leading to excessive export bias while the needs of the domestic consumption are increasingly neglected, reports Megafishnet com.
The "Admiralty Shipyards" (St. Petersburg) began cutting steel for the sixth vessel from a series of supertrawlers for the "Russian Fishery Company" (RFC), reports Megafishnet.com...
The harvest volume and sales of Russian Aquaculture (Russia’s leading Atlantic salmon farmer) displayed a considerable decrease year-on-year in 2020. This was mainly caused by the shift of the fish slaughtering to 2021 because of the slower growth to marketable weight in the abnormally low water temperatures in the first half of 2020, reports Megafishnet.com...
Unlike king crab, in December 2020 American import of frozen snow crab was even weaker than in November and much lower than in December 2019...
Despite COVID-19 constraints, the supply of Russian-caught live crab to the Chinese market in December 2020 showed a very serious increase, even compared to 2019, when the supply level was already quite high, reports Megafishnet.com...
Despite a difficult year 2020, Dobroflot group of companies managed to find growth zones and close the year with a 30% increase in export sales in physical terms, having shipped 14.5 thousand tons for the amount of 1.5 billion rubles, reports Megafishnet.com...
Close to mid- February the wholesale market of St-Petersburg (Russia’s main entry port for imported seafood) is witnessing a sweeping rise of pelagic prices while a number of white fish items have depreciated, reports Megafishnet.com.
In late February Russians will traditionally celebrate Defender of the Fatherland Day which will normally help increase the salmon and trout sales, reports Megafishnet.com.
Close to mid-February the market situation in the Russian Far East has been developing against the background of lagging pollock catch, the remaining trade with China and South Korea as well as fears of the Russian buyers that China will resume purchases on a big scale, taking reefer loads of pollock, etc. as of 18 February, reports Megafishnet.com.
As of February 8, 2021 Russian fishermen harvested 451,250 metric tons of fish and other aquatic species. The year-on-year decline amounted to 62,490 tonnes or 12.2%, reports Megafishnet.com.
As of February 7, 2021 Russia’s pollock catch totalled 216 thousand metric tons, thus showing a decline of 85.2 thousand tonnes year-on-year and accounting for 71.7% of the last year level, reports Megafishnet.com.