Russian vessels will resume fishing in the Guinea exclusive economic zone in 2020, following the signing of a new agreement between the two countries.
Following up on a fishery cooperation agreement signed last year between Russian and Guinea, Ilya Shestakov, head of Russia's Federal Agency for Fisheries, and Guinean Minister of Fisheries, Aquaculture, and Maritime Economy Frederique Loua signed the agreement after negotiations during the III
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Russian fishery authorities are taking additional measures to tackle illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing during the country’s upcoming salmon season
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Welcome to Part II of SeafoodSource’s series investigating the factors contributing to what has become one of the primary obstacles of development for Russia’s seafood sector at large: a lack of skilled labor.
The initial installment of this two-part series, “Workforce shortage stalemating progress for Russian fisheries,” focused on the histories that have informed – and hindered – Russia’s fisheries
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Fishermen are in short supply in Russia now, which may hold up the country’s efforts to beat new catch records as well as delay the effects of government-initiated incentive programs aimed at renewing fleets and beefing-up seafood processing facilities.
In this series, SeafoodSource investigates the factors contributing to what has become one of the primary obstacles of development for Russia’s seafood sector at large: a
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A two-day conference of scientific experts from Russia, the United States, Canada, Denmark, Norway, South Korea, China, Sweden, Japan, and the European Union in the Russian city of Arkhangelsk resulted in an agreement to conduct more research on Arctic fisheries.
The April meeting was the first after an agreement between the 10 countries was signed in October of last year. The legally binding accord prohibits all commercial fishing in the
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Andrey Katkov, a Russian billionaire and one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest allies, is reportedly building an aquaculture facility in the country’s northwest region with an annual capacity up to 2,000 metric tons (MT) of salmon
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The Russian Ministry for Industry and Trade recently published a draft of a governmental decree on subsidies intended to defray the costs of construction of small and medium vessels, refrigerated ships, and fleets for aquaculture
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Nearly 7,000 kilometers separates Russia’s largest seafood-producing region, the Russian Far East, and its biggest consumer markets in the central part of the country.
Spurred by that distance and by inefficiencies in country’s transportation infrastructure, over the past five years, Russia’s government and industry have jointly pursued the adoption of electronic seafood marketplaces.
In 2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin
… Read MoreThe board of directors of Russia’s scientific institutes for fisheries has approved the country’s total allowable catch (TAC) for 2020 at just over three million metric tons (MT), nearly identical to the current year’s total
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Moscow, Russia-based Russian Fishery Company (RFC) will be an active bidder in the upcoming auction for cod and haddock quotas, the company has said.
Russia’s Federal Agency for Fisheries is auctioning the quota. To qualify, companies must invest in infrastructure upgrades in the form of either vessel or processing plant upgrades. The Interdepartmental Commission of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation and the Federal
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