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The Russian Fishery Company (RFC) in partnership with the Agama Group is planning the construction of a new processing factory to serve its northern fisheries. The 60 tonne per day Northern Cod factory is expected to be in operation in late 2019.
Norwegian naval architect Skipsteknisk has secured a major contract for the design of a high-tech factory trawler for a Russian customer, to be built at Tersan in Turkey. The vessel is predicted to be the largest new purpose-built factory vessel for more than 25 years.
The Yantar Shipyard in Kaliningrad has launched the third pelagic vessel in a series of three being constructed for the Lenin Fishing Collective Farm in the Russian Far East. The trio are being built to an SK-3101R design by Norwegian company Skipskompetanse.
Fishermen in Kamchatka are traditionally the first to start fishing salmon as the season opens. This year the Russian Far East salmon catch is expected to be more than 490,000 tonnes, making it the largest projected fishery in recent years.
The new Russian Pollock factory, a joint venture between The Russian Fishery Company (RFC) and the DV Invest, will net an additional 14,500 tonnes of pollock and herring quotas once it is operational. The factory, due to be built in the Nadezhdinskaya priority development territory near Vladivostok, represents an investment of $12-15 million.
The port of Arkhangelsk on Russia’s northern coast expects to see a growing supply of fish from the Far East this year. According to the regional director Igor Orlov, negotiations are in progress to bring more raw material to Arkhangelsk from the Russian Far East.
Measures taken by Russia and Norway from 2015 to regulate the snow crab fishery have been shown to have been effective in restricting third-country access and blocking IUU activity. Joint efforts in fisheries management were discussed by the Russian and Norwegian fisheries ministers at the Global Seafood Exhibition last week in Brussels.
The Russian Fishery Company (RFC) plans to start construction of its Russian Pollock fish processing factory this year. The processing capacity of the factory will be capable of processing more 60,000 tonnes of pollock into 25,000 tonnes of high value-added products.
After two years with no capelin fishery in the Barents Sea, Russian vessels have this year declared catches of 66,000 tonnes of capelin, a 30% increase on the last season’s total in 2015.
Russia’s Federal Agency for Fisheries is making plans for the renewal of the coastal fleet, preparing mechanisms for coastal fishing’s development by providing state support for regions where investment quotas are not applicable. This applies to coastal and freshwater regions where around 75% of resources are though to be under-utilised.