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For the first time in the recent years Russian fishermen have reported smaller catches as compared to the same period of the previous year, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/

As per 12 February 2012 the total Alaska pollock harvest from the beginning of the year amounted to *** MT, thus making only ** % as compared to the same period of 2011, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/

In 2012 Russia has got bigger quotas for fishery in the waters of Iceland, Faroe Islands (autonomous from Denmark) and Greenland. In its turn, Russia has also allocated similar capture quotas to the above states, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/

According to estimated figures, in January 2012 the Russian harvest in the Atlantic Ocean amounted to **** MT, **** MT up on same month of 2011. The contribution of Kaliningrad-based vessels amounted to **%, reports www.megafishnet.com.

According to estimated figures, in December 2011 the Russian harvest in the Atlantic Ocean amounted to *** MT, *** MT down on November 2011. The contribution of Kaliningrad-based vessels amounted to less than 14%, reports www.megafishnet.com.

Main Alaska pollock season has taken off in the Sea of Okhotsk as of 1 January 2012 and as per 17 January 2012 the reported catch rates were higher than last year, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/

In summer 2011 Alaska pollock market players learned that Pacific Andes Holding acquired Viktoriya mothership to rebuild the crumbling giant for surimi production in Russian Pollock Fisheries. The industry insiders have generally made positive comments on the daring project and specifically on the speed of rebuilding but risks for the venture have also surfaced, according to http://www.megafishnet.com/

Export in the late November - early December had a number of developments and contained mostly such products as pollock, fishmeal, pink and chum salmon, herring and Atka mackerel, reports www.megafishnet.com.

In mid-December 2011 Russia's Federal Fisheries Agency has banned cod fishery in the White Sea, reports http://www.megafishent.com/

Pollock fishery in the Sea of Okhotsk and in the Bering Sea, herring fishery in the Olyutorsk and Karaginsk Bays and salmon fishery are main contributors to the Russian wild fish harvest in the Far East Basin and the bulk of it (about 90%) comes from Kamchatka waters, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/ with reference to KamchatNIRO research institute.

Half of all Russian commercial fisheries could be declared sustainable and MSC-certified by the year 2013, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/