Baltic Sea catch and quota progress in February 2021

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

According to Fishnet.ru, up to 35 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.

Total pelagic fish catch of the month amounted to 11,100 tonnes. The main commercial species was sprat accounting for 90% of the total catch, the remaining share was made up by herring (10%).

The bottom fishery in the sea’s southeast was still hardly noteworthy with one small trawler coming from Kaliningrad participating. Through February she harvested 92 tonnes of fish, of which European flounder accounted for 88% and cod – 12%.

Baltic herring

In the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea the herring fishery was suspended due to rough ice conditions. Catches through the first days of the month totalled 180 tonnes, of which herring contributed 97% and the bycatch of sprat – 3%.

From the beginning of the year Russia’s harvest in the southeast of the Baltic Sea and in the Gulf of Finland amounted to 18,100 tonnes of sprat and 4,9 tonnes of herring.

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

Source of catch data: Fishnet.ru

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