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ANNONCER

Knarr has developed a series of fishing vessels designs ranging from coastal trawlers all the way up to a versatile
Newbuild

Knarr Russia floated in St Petersburg

Iceland’s Minister of Fisheries yesterday launched Knarr Russia. Earlier this year six specialist companies in Iceland established a platform, Knarr Maritime, to provide options for new fishing vessels, combining decades of experience. The new venture, Knarr Russia, is aimed squarely at the Russian market for new fishing vessels by setting up a subsidiary company in co-operation with Russian partner Raduga.

FiskerForum 16/09/2017
Ilya Shestakov
Administration

Russia pushes ahead with investment quotas

Speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum, Ilya Shestakov, head of the Russian Fisheries Agency, announced that in the next five to seven years investment quotas will help to build more than a hundred fishing vessels and an estimated twenty shore processing plants.

FiskerForum 12/09/2017
Gerbert Tsaturov of the Leningrad Pella Shipyard and Yuri Parshev
Newbuild

Pella signs newbuild orders

The Leningrad Pella Shipyard near St Petersburg has signed contracts to deliver two freezer trawlers and a crabber for owners in Murmansk and the Russian Far East.

FiskerForum 26/07/2017
Ilya Shestakov
Administration

Boosting fishing, promoting seafood

With the fishing industry in Russia going through reform and modernisation, the fleet being renewed long with port infrastructure and logistics, supply and the balance of imports and exports is set to change, according to the head of Russia’s Federal Agency for Fisheries, Deputy Minister of Agriculture Ilya Shestakov.

FiskerForum 03/07/2017
Borodino - @ Fiskerforum
Fishing

Never easy, always interesting

Fishing in the Russian Far East presents plenty of challenges and Andrey Fatyanov, who skippers a freezer trawler owned by Interaros, the part of Russian Fishery Group, says that fishing life is never easy, but always interesting.

FiskerForum 22/06/2017
RRPK has quotas for crab
Fish Species

Crab quotas secured at auction

Russian Far East fishing company RRPK has acquired rights to fish 2400 tonnes of crab in the Primorye sub-area.

FiskerForum 16/06/2017
The two latest signings are due to be delivered in 2022 - @ Fiskerforum
Fishing

Vyborg signs newbuilds

The Vyborg Shipyard has signed contracts for two new trawlers to be completed for companies within the FOR Group of producers. Work is expected to start in 2021 on the 80.40m LOA, 15.50m factory vessels, with completion scheduled for 2022.

FiskerForum 04/06/2017
Remøy has been detained in Murmansk for two weeks so far - @ Fiskerforum
Politics

Remøy still held in Murmansk

A Norwegian shrimp trawler is still detained in Murmansk, two weeks after an inspection by Russian Coastguard showed a flaw in the trawler’s licensing paperwork. The trawler’s owners are on their way to Russia to meet the crew who have been in limbo for the last couple of weeks.

FiskerForum 25/05/2017