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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Moscow, Russia-based Russian Aquaculture (RA) has announced its output and profits skyrocketed in the first six months of 2019 ...
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Russia’s government may consider dropping the restrictions imposed by federal law on fishing by non-Russian companies in the country’s waters.
Russia’s Federal Fisheries Agency Head Ilya Shestakov’s – at a discussion panel he was chairing titled “The capitalization of the fishery industry” at the third Global Fishery Forum in St. Petersburg, Russia – suggested potentially changing federal
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The Russian Fishery Company (RFC) has put into operation a Russian cod plant in the Murmansk region, its first processing facility built under the investment quotas program initiated by the country’s government to renew and expand fish processing facilities and fishing fleets. The plant’s designed daily capacity …
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The Russian Federal Agency for Fisheries and Russian Fishery Company (RFC) signed agreements on investments quotas allocated to the company for building new fishing vessels and an onshore plant.
The documents were signed by Ilya Shestakov, head of the Fishery Agency, and Fedor Kirsanov, CEO of RFC, during the Eastern Economic Forum held in a city of Vladivostok.
Investment quotas is an incentive mechanism introduced by Russian
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The Russian government has decided to take increased measures against illegal sales of salmon roe, which often involve fraudulent schemes. Authorities want more transparency throughout the product’s trade and financial flow, and more taxes paid to the state’s budget as a result.
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In 2018, Russian fisheries caught record volumes of salmon totaling 676,000 metric tons (MT). This
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A new aquaculture operation is planned for the Russian region of Vologda in 2020, and it will be the first recirculating aquaculture system (RAS)-based farm in the country.
Aquaproduct is planning the facility, which held a groundbreaking in the town of Gribkovo, roughly 500 kilometers from Moscow. According to the company, the facility has a projected annual capacity of 2,500 metric tons (MT) of Atlantic salmon; the company claims that the feed
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Russian fishery companies are projected to catch nearly five million metric tons (MT) this year, which is as much as the last year’s result, though another strong salmon season may shift the forecast upward
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A blast on a nuclear test site in the Russian Arctic has still left many questions unanswered, including those concerning fisheries ...
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Russian Fishery Company (RFC) and the Moscow, Russia-based Agama Group have inked a deal to jointly construct a second processing plant
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The Russian Federal Agency for Fisheries announced the results of the third stage of the quota-for-investment program, designed to encourage Russian companies upgrade their fleets and construct more processing facilities to produce value-added products
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