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’s salmon fishery overdelivered in 2019, but Russian fishermen shouldn’t expect the good run to continue in 2020, according to the latest predictions ...
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The results of recent auctions for crab quotas in Russia have created more clarity around how many new vessels will be built to target the fishery in coming years
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A powerful new player has emerged out of the results of controversial government-run auctions for crab quotas in Russia.
Gleb Frank is now being referred to as “The Crab King” by Russian media outlets after his company, Russian Fishery Company (RFC), won more than one-third of the quotas up for auction in October. The auctions, which collectively handed out 15-year fishing rights to around 50 percent of Russia’s total allowable
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Russian firm Poronay has acquired its competitor Everon for an alleged price of USD 330 million (EUR 298.14 million), trying to capitalize on surging global prices for pollock, Kommersant has reported …
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Russia and Saudi Arabia have signed a memorandum on expanding agricultural trade between the two countries, with shrimp comprising one of the most important parts of the new agreement …
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Russian shipyards will produce 43 vessels over the next six years, Russian Federal Agency for Fisheries Director Ilya Shestakov stated in a recent speech at the Upper Chamber of the Russian parliament …
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Fishermen from North Korea have been illegally catching a wide range of species near the shores of the Russian Far East for more than three decades. But this year has seen much more activity, with record numbers of poachers arrested and illegal ships seized.
The sheer number of North Korean vessels fishing illegally is preventing Russian companies from fishing and may eventually cause an ecological disaster, according to the Primorye Fisheries
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The Lower Chamber of the Russian Parliament has passed a bill making it easier for fish farmers to rent land sites adjacent to their farms without conducting additional auctions
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A Russian senator is calling for his country to renegotiate the line demarcating the fishing boundary between his country and the United States
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Russia intends to make black caviar a more significant source of export revenue, but it is facing what it calls unfair competition from falsely labeled imports at home, which is both decreasing the income of local producers and creating a warped perception of the product among consumers, according to the Russian government.
Russia annually produces around 40 metric tons of black caviar derived from sturgeon. After the introduction of a fishing
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