Ivan Stupachenko is a Russian freelance business writer reporting from St. Petersburg for Russian and international publications on various topics. He has been a print and an online journalist for 18 years at business newspaper Kommersant. Ivan also works as an editor for St. Petersburg Travel Guide and writer for Business St. Petersburg, the city’s biggest business publication
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Russia has set a total allowable catch (TAC) for pollock for 2021 of nearly 2 million metric tons (MT) ...
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A recent ecological catastrophe in the waters of Russia's most prominent fishing region is being blamed on a red tide.
The first signs of the disaster appeared in late September, when surfers in Avacha Bay, on the west coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, reported health problems including burning eyes, coughing, fever, and vomiting. Residents reported that local waters changed color and taken on a strange odor. On 29 September, a strong storm
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Almost a year after its first crab-fishing auctions took place in late 2019, the Russian government has finally managed to sell the last few lots that attracted no previous interest from bidders …
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Latvian fishermen are considering a relocation to Russia and becoming Russian citizens to be able to fish, as their homeland provides less and less opportunities because of restrictions imposed by the European Union ...
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Kamchatka, Russia Governor Vladimir Solodov is planning reforms for the country’s largest fishing sector …
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The Vladivostok Russia-based Pollock Catchers Association (PCA), and the Polar branch of the Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (PINRO), are developing a new sorting system for pelagic trawls that aims to significantly reduce the bycatch of juvenile pollock – an initiative inspired by World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-Russia, the latter organization said in a statement on its website.
Juvenile pollock can make up a
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Radical proposals made by the Russian Fishery Company (RFC) on the development of the Russian seafood sector led to the loss of a Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification by the company.
In September, RFC was expelled from the Pollock Catchers Association (PCA) – the MSC’s client group in Russia. Now the company plans to apply for the certification independently.
RFC, owned by Gleb Frank –a young entrepreneur
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The Russian Aquaculture company plans to become the first fishery to farm salmon in a region which previously has been deemed unfit for growing the species.
The company is thinking of establishing a mariculture facility on a site it leased through an auction in July 2020.
As Russian Aquaculture’s CEO Ilya Sosnov told RBC newspaper, the site is in the south of the Primorsky region, in the Posyet Bay, 30 kilometers from North
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A plant producing freshly frozen cod fillet, liver, and caviar – as well as halibut, grenadier, flounder, and navaga – was recently completed in the town of Severo-Kurilsk, located on Paramushir Island in the Sakhalin region, in Russia’s Far East …
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Crimea-based Black Sea Fishery Company (BSFC) awarded The Sea Shipbuilding Plant with a contract for the construction of 10 new trawlers to be deployed in the Black and the Azov seas.
Founded in 2014 – just after the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula into the Russian Federation – BSFC is part of The Sea Resources group of companies, a vertically integrated holding specializing on the whole supply chain of seafood
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