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The first contracts for the allocation of investment quotas, the Russian government’s mechanism designed to boost the renewal of the fishing fleet and processing sector, have been signed at a meeting of the board of the Federal Agency for Fisheries (Rosrybolvstvo), in the presence of agriculture minister Alexander Tkachev.
The Yantar shipyard in Kaliningrad has launched the second of three pelagic vessels being built for a company in Russia’s Far East. The fleet of three Skipskompetanse-designed pelagic catchers is due to be delivered to the customer in 2019.
The Nerpa shipyard, a branch of JSC ZS Zvezdochka, part of Russian shipbuilding conglomerate United Shipbuilding Corporation, is gearing up to expand its activities in the fishing sector.
A new generation of freezer trawlers is taking shape at the Vyborg Shipyard, part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, with a new generation of fishing vessels under construction.
The keel of a new crab catcher for Russian Far East fishing company Antey has been laid at the Pella Shipyard in St Petersburg, following the signing of the contract between the yard and the fishing company for the first of this series of vessels.
Russian pelagic vessels have caught as much Barents Sea capelin this season as they had during the last season in 2015, as there was no fishery in 2016 and 2017, and the prospects are looking good for the continuing season.
The Vostok-1 Fishing Collective Farm has taken delivery of a modernised fishing vessel to develop fishing for crab in deeper waters in the Sea of Japan. Vostok-1 was a pioneer of this fishery in the early 2000s when there was little interest in catching crabs, and has made a success of its tenacity in sticking with the crab fishery over the years.
Russian’s Barents Sea red king crab fishery in the Barents Sea has become the first king crab fishery in the world to achieve MSC certification as a sustainable and well-managed fishery. The certification was awarded by independent certifier Acoura Marine following a detailed assessment.
The Commission responsible for selecting projects under Russia’s investment quotas scheme has approved 56 out of the 68 applications received. 33 new fishing vessels and 23 new fish processing plants are to be built under the investment quotas framework.
Icelandic companies Skaginn 3X, Frost and Rafeyri have signed a contract to supply a high-tech pelagic processing plant to a customer in the Russian Far East. The factory in the Kuril Islands will be fitted out to grade, pack and freeze 900 tonnes of pelagic fish per day.