Russia on holiday until 11 January 2009

The Russian market has been always remarkable for its stable demand for canned fish. From the Soviet times Russia has been showing a traditional range of canned fish items steadily available in retail outlets. Such range includes canned herring, mackerel, horse mackerel, saury, sardine, pink salmon, sprat, etc, according to the study produced by http://www.fishnet-russia.com/ (http://www.fishnet.ru/)

FISHNET Ltd has completed a study of Russian canned seafood importation in 2004-2007, according to http://www.fishnet-russia.com/ (http://www.fishnet.ru/ for the Russian audience).

Leading seafood importer, exporter and producer in Belarus Santa Bremor has launched the first fishmarket Santa Fish in the centre of Minsk, Belarus capital, to offer customers a whole range of seafood from all over world, reports www.fishnet-russia.com (http://www.fishnet.ru/)

Pollock Fishermen's Association based in Vladivostok made a decision to harvest pollock in the Sea of Okhotsk in 2009 at the level of 2008, namely at 400,000 tonnes at the largest, reports www.fishnet-russia.com (www.fishnet.ru)

We are pleased to advise that we have updated our Sortable E-Guide of Russian Company Inshore Quotas 2007-2009.

Lightly salted trout produced by Santa Bremor (leading fish processor and importer based in Belarus) has been acknowledged the best seafood TM on the Ukrainian market, according to the results of tastings and chemical expertise, reports www.fishnet-russia.com (www.fishnet.ru)

GTP UP Belryba, one of the largest importers and producers of smoked and marinated seafood in Belarus, has won eight awards in a tasting competition supported by Belarus State Certification and Standardization Institute (BelGISS) and MinskExpo, reports www.fishnet-russia.com (www.fishnet.ru)

In Murmansk the Russian-Norwegian working group on fishery management in Spitsbergen met in Murmansk to discuss mostly local problems of the mesh size and the volume of bycatch, reports www.fishnet-russia.com (www.fishnet.ru)

At the sixth session of the Russian-Belarus Fisheries Commission which took place in Kaliningrad in late December 2008 the sides have discussed allocation of capture quotas in the Barents Sea and in the Baltic Sea for the year 2009 to Belarus, reports www.fishnet-russia.com (www.fishnet.ru)

On 18 December 2008 head of Russia's Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Rosselkhoznadzor Sergey Dankvert and deputy director-general of the Directorate-General for Health and Consumer Protection Ms. Paola Testori Coggi signed a traditional memorandum on safety of seafood shipments to Russia, reports www.fishnet-russia.com (http://www.fishnet.ru/)

Export of fish and other aquatic products harvested in the World Ocean and exported to foreign stated without calls to Russian ports (beyond customs border) in January-November 2008 amounted to *** million USD ...

PM Vladimir Putin has warned Andrey Krainy, head of Russia's Federal Fisheries Agency, to proceed with care when making advice on restricting seafood importation to Russia, reports www.fishnet-russia.com (www.fishnet.ru)

Chinese pollock fillets producers working on the Russian raw material tend to minimize the product price by means of manipulations with protein and product weight, Mikhail Kostenets from Allimpex-Kamchatka wrote at the Russian-language forum of www.fishnet-russia.com (http://www.fishnet.ru/)

We are pleased to inform that we have just published the December issue of the Russian Fish Report.

As of the 1st of January 2009 according to the Federal Law "On Fishery and Conservation of Aquatic Biological Resources" aquatic biological resources caught (captured) during commercial fishery in the inland waters of the Russian Federation, in the territory of sea of Russia, in the continental shelf of Russia, in the Russian EEZ and the products of their processing shall be delivered on the customs territory of the Russian Federation. It is expected that this will increase supplies of seafood product on the domestic market by 20 - 30% in 2009 as well as increase shipping by railways by 30%, reports http://www.fishnet-russia.com/ (http://www.fishnet.ru/)

The Ministry of Agriculture, Russia's Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Rosselkhoznadzor and representatives of territorial bodies, the local administration of a number of regions of Russia and top management of a number of industry Associations took part in a meeting dedicated to the fulfillment of the resolution of the Russian Government No. 184 (about the rules of processing of calling/leaving of fishing vessels in the Russian fish sea ports and importation/exportation of catches of aquatic biological resources) as well as of part 3.2 of 19th article of the Federal Law "On Fishery and Conservation of Aquatic Biological Resources" (according to which aquatic biological resources captured by the Russian fishing vessels in the Barents Sea, the Baltic Sea and in the Black Sea outside the inland sea waters, territorial sea, EEZ and Continental Shelf, as well as in the Azov Sea and the Caspian Sea and products of their processing shall be delivered on the customs territory of the Russian Federation, reports http://www.fishnet-russia.com/ (http://www.fishnet.ru/)

Russia and Belarus will establish a united vet inspection service to inspect food products from other foreign countries, said Mr. Semyon Shapiro, the Minister of Agriculture of Belarus at a recent meeting with Russian colleagues, reports http://www.fishnet-russia.com/ (http://www.fishnet.ru/ )

In October 2008 Russia's exports of frozen salmon to Japan, halibut and flounder to China and frozen pollock roe to Japan and China were remarkable for comparably high rates of moving, according to the overview prepared by analysts of http://www.fishnet-russia.com/ (http://www.fishnet.ru/) based on Japanese and Russian sources.

In the second week of December 2008 trade in freshfrozen seafood in Moscow has been calm without any rise of activity normally observed before the New Year holidays as many processors have built up the necessary stock of raw fish for stable operations through to January 2009, analysts of www.fishnet-russia.com (www.fishnet.ru) concluded after analyzing the current situation on the market.