Vladivostok-based largest pollock harvester reporting catch results through first seven weeks of 2009
Vladivostok-based BAMR-ROLIZ Group of Companies, which is one of the largest Alaska pollock harvesters in the Russian Far East, has made a total catch of 23,734 tonnes of fish in the first seven weeks of the year 2009, the company told www.fishnet-russia.com (https://www.fishnet.ru/).
Alaska pollock was the dominating species contributing as much as 21,972 tonnes to the above harvest.
Catches (according to fishing permits) and quotas of BAMR-ROLIZ group of companies in 2009
Fishing area | Species | Group's quota | Allowed volume | Catch | %% |
West Bering Sea zone (Northwest Pacific) | Pollock | 55,648.530 | 10,320.000 | 8,136.599 | 14,621% |
West Kamchatka (Northwest Pacific) | Pollock | 28,201.500 | 23,511.500 | 3,024.358 | 10,724% |
Kamchatka Kurile subarea (Northwest Pacific) | Pollock | 13,814.690 | 13,493.390 | 9,320.280 | 67,466% |
North Okhotsk subarea (Northwest Pacific) | Pollock | 26,330.420 | 7,030.350 | 1,490.773 | 5,662% |
North Okhotsk subarea (Northwest Pacific) | Herring | 16,132.120 | 2,220.160 | 1,761.946 | 10,922% |
TOTAL | 140 127,260 | 56,575.400 | 23,733.956 | 16.937% | |
As per the third week of February 2009, pollock prices in Moscow continued rising. The industry insiders explained the price rise by stable demand and lack of the supply on the domestic market. In the meantime, the pollock supply on the export markets has been fairly good. The Russian fishermen have realised that mandatory clearance of EEZ's catches at Russian ports is not at all a complicated lengthy procedure, therefore they started boosting sales to the overseas markets. Even those companies which harvested pollock in the inshore waters have been keen to clear the cargo for further export. Russia's pollock exports have also been encouraged by very attractive prices on the overseas markets, which made little sense to bring the products to the domestic market at lower prices rather than export them at least at 1600 USD per tonne of headed pollock 25+ DES Qingdao, China.
BAMR-ROLIZ
BAMR-ROLIZ Group of Companies consists of several fishing enterprises based in Vladivostok-led Primorsky Krai. They include PJSC Nakhodka active marine fishery base (NBAMR); CJSC ROLIZ; Far Eastern fishing company (DRK), LLC; Fishing Kolkhoz Far Eastern Fishery Base (DVBR), LLC; Fish-factory Kamenskiy, LLC; and Managing Company BAMR (MC BAMR), LLC.
Major business activities of the Group are concentrated on harvesting and further processing of sea fish and cephalopods. The Group's fleet of 21 large-tonnage and one middle-tonnage vessel, as well as one transport refrigerator works across all of the northwestern Pacific Ocean waters and annually catches more than 170,000 tons of fish and seafood. Seventeen vessels are registered by the Commission of the European Communities and have permission to export their product to EU countries. The main species harvested by the company include pollock, squid, herring, Atka mackerel, longfin codling Laemonema, etc.
In addition to own fishing and transport fleet, BAMR-ROLIZ Group has an onshore processing factory and a full infrastructure complex including fleet maintenance base, fishing gear factory, port complex with berths, crane equipment, general cargo warehouse and up-to-date cold storage.
Since the beginning of the 1990's, the Group member companies have been actively developing new international markets. As a result, the Group maintains long-term business relations with large companies from Germany, Great Britain, France, Japan, the Republic of Korea, China, and other countries. In 2007, export totaled 65% of production volume. The main export products are pollock H/G, pollock fillet, mince, roe and milt, Pacific herring, Atka mackerel, and fishmeal. BAMR-ROLIZ Group of Companies is the largest producer at Russian Far East, exporting top quality fish products, such as pollock fillet PBO and mince frozen at sea.