Baltic Sea catch and quota progress in April 2021

Russian fleets were engaged in Baltic Sea pelagiс fishery as well as bottom trawl fishery for cod and haddock in April 2021, reports Megafishnet.com.

According to Fishnet.ru, up to 32 vessels coming from Kaliningrad-led West Fisheries were conducting pelagic fishery in the southeastern part of the Baltic Sea. The fishery conditions were reported as favourable, though the fishing efforts grew smaller.

Total pelagic fish catch of the month amounted to 6,200 tonnes. The main commercial species was sprat accounting for 88% of the total catch, the remaining share was made up by herring (12%).

The Russian fleet started the bottom fishery in the sea’s southeast on 27 April 2021. The total catch in the remaining days of the month amounted to 45 tonnes of cod.

Baltic herring

In the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea the herring fishery was conducted by up to 10 inshore boats. Their catches through the month totalled ca.3,200 tonnes (+2,500 tonnes), of which herring contributed 96% and the bycatch of sprat – 4%.

From the beginning of the year Russia’s harvest in the southeast of the Baltic Sea and in the Gulf of Finland amounted to 31,500 tonnes of sprat and 13,100 tonnes of herring. For comparison, during the same period of 2020 the results were 30,300 tonnes of sprat and 13,300 tonnes of herring.

BALTIC SEA: Dynamics of Russian catches and quota progress in January-April 2020-2021

Source of catch data: Fishnet.ru