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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Hopeful expectations that a new transportation route through the so-called Northern Sea Passage could speed the shipment of seafood from Russia’s Far East to its major population centers in Western Russia have thus not been met ...
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Murmansk, Russia-based Norebo Group has placed an order for four new longliners to be built at the St. Petersburg, Russia-based Severnaya Weft shipyard ...
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A critical part of Russia’s renewed fishery industry monitoring system has been put into operation as of 1 July 2020.
The Digital Catch Journal (DCJ) is meant to make sure the industry’s statistics are collected in a transparent, timely, and complete way. The system, when in full operation, will significantly increase state oversight of the national catch and its real value.
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The Russian Far East salmon fishery, which runs from 1 June to 1 August, is facing a new set of challenges in 2020. With projections predicting the lowest harvest of recent years, the fishery is expected to see a reduced value even if prices maintained normal levels – all while necessary measures needed to tackle COVID-19 are increasing expenses.
According to Russian fishery science, the season’s catch is going to be only
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Russia saw a 30 percent increase in northern shrimp catch from the Barents Sea during the first four months of this year compared to 2019. While catch has climbed for the often-overlooked species, the landings remain far below scientific advice, meaning ample room for growth ...
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Russia’s Ministry of Agriculture has issued a decree with new parameters for total allowable catch (TAC) levels for the country’s fisheries in 2020, with ramifications for crab and pollock ...
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Three Russian crab-fishing companies have written letters to the country's president, Vladimir Putin, asking him for help in forestalling legal investigations that may drive them into bankruptcy.
The separate, open letters were signed by all 700 employees of Primorskaya Rybolovnaya Kompaniya (PRK), Kurilskiy Universalniy Komplex (KUK), and Moneron, which collectively hold around 9,000 metric tons of crab quota, according to business journal
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The Norebo group of companies, one of the major players in the Russian seafood sector, has announced plans to build a refrigerated storage and vessel repair facility in Murmansk ...
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In late June, a second in a series of 10 super-trawlers that the Russian Fishery Company (RFC) had ordered at The Admiralty Shipyard in St. Petersburg was floated out, and the third in the series had its keel laid ...
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Russian government officials have set their sights on expansion into the Antarctic krill fishery as part of a national strategy to increase domestic seafood production.
Growing Russia’s krill catch is a significant part of a strategy crafted by Ilya Shestakov, chairman of the Russia’s Federal Agency for Fisheries, to reach the country’s goal of doubling the country’s revenues from seafood exports. Recently, the
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