Ivan Stupachenko

Contributing Editor reporting from Saint Petersburg, Russia

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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February 15, 2019

The Head of the Russian Federal Agency for Fisheries Ilya Shestakov ordered a new study into the possibility of fishing pollock and opilio crab in new waters due to shifts in stocks caused by climate change

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February 12, 2019

In October 2018, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced new governmental targets for the country’s agriculture sector, which included a goal of achieving USD 8 billion (EUR 7 billion) in revenue from annual seafood exports by 2024.

The goal is a doubling of Russia’s current annual export figure – in 2018, the country exported USD 4 billion (EUR 3.5 billion) worth of seafood. And it won’t come from catching twice

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Published on
January 4, 2019

Russian authorities are trying to encourage the fishing industry and trade businesses to use better practices in production, retail, logistics and marketing to get more Russian fish sold on domestic market which has been experiencing a significant decrease over recent years. 

In the years following Russia’s 2014 imposition of a ban on imported food from the United States, Canada, the European Union, Norway, and Australia, Russia began

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Published on
January 4, 2019

Russia is planning to up the number of fisheries research surveys in conducts both in domestic and foreign waters in 2019

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January 2, 2019

Russia’s government has given its OK to a draft of a law that is likely to create tax breaks for Russian aquaculture operations

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Published on
December 21, 2018

Russian fishermen have caught more than 150,000 metric tons (MT) of pelagic fish in 2018, more than twice as much as 2017 – and the season isn’t over yet

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Published on
December 19, 2018

Russia’s government has given its OK to a draft of a law that is likely to create tax breaks for Russian aquaculture operations

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December 12, 2018

A new non-government organization, The Russian Union of Employers in the Fishery Industry (RUEFI), was established in late November, with the objective of being a signatory to a trilateral agreement between the government, business and labor in the industry

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Published on
December 3, 2018

With 2018 nearing its end, the Russian Agency for Fisheries has announced that this will be the second consecutive year Russian catch totals reach an all-time high. When all is said and done for 2018, Russian fishing companies are expected to have landed more than five million metric tons (MT) of fish, up from 4.9 million MT in 2017.

Yet even as Russian fishing companies catch more fish than ever, the country’s per capita consumption of

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Published on
November 16, 2018

Wholesale prices for salmon caviar have fallen between 15 and 50 percent in Russia this fall as a result of a record-breaking salmon season

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