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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Russian Fisherу Company's (RFC) output of deep-processed products was up 22 percent year-on-year during the first six months of 2021, reflecting the company’s shift to producing more value-added seafood. …
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The Russian government will subsidize the transportation of pollock and salmon by rail from the country’s Far East with the intention of lowering retail prices, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has announced.
The challenges facing rail companies and the seafood firms that use Russia’s railways to transport their catch have been compounding but the agreement could pave the way for more of Russia's domestically-caught
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An intergovernmental commission of the Russian government has approved an application from Norebo Group for special investment quotas for cod, halibut, and grenadier in the Bering Sea …
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Russia is adding opilio crab quota in an unexpected location – the Kara Sea ...
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Russia and Iran have agreed to upscale their fishery cooperation with a focus on science, education, and preservation of stocks.
Both countries share a border with the Caspian Sea, the world’s largest inland water body, along with Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan. Sturgeon stocks there are in trouble and fishers have been forbidden to catch the species since the early 2000’s. Sturgeon have been Russia’s
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As of 19 July, two months into Russia’s salmon season that started on 1 June, 91,000 metric tons (MT) of the species were caught – 2.4 times more than in the corresponding period of 2020 but 19 percent less than in 2019, Russia’s Federal Agency for Fisheries said …
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Russia’s Federal Agency for Fisheries will lease 143 sites for aquaculture in 2021, the most acreage ever explicitly offered for aquaculture in Russia’s modern history ...
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Russian Aquaculture, the largest fish-farming company in Russia, had a mixed start to 2021, with increased revenue but with a fall in profitability, according to its recently released, unaudited Q1 results.
Results were positive on the operations side, the company reported. Harvests were up by 26 percent compared to Q1 2020, while sales of finished products increased by 28 percent.
The company's revenue, driven by higher sales, was
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A survey by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has revealed that the trade of caviar and sturgeon-based products in four key European countries continues to be plagued by illegal trading, hindering the recovery of seven of eight species of sturgeon in Eastern Europe that are on the brink of extinction.
WWF conducted a market survey within the European Union-funded LIFE project and published a resulting paper, "Sustainable Protection of Lower Danube
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Russian Friends Capital, a Moscow-based investment fund, is planning an Atlantic salmon aquaculture farm in Kazakhstan to target prospective markets in the country, as well as markets in Russia and
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