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 reported strong sales and revenue growth in Q3 and through the first nine months of 2021 ...
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Russia’s pelagic catch saw mixed results this year as catches of a number of species belied expected trends …
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Murmansk Russia-based Norebo has acquired FEST Group, supplementing its position as the country’s largest fishing company by fishing-quota tonnage.
The FEST Group, also based in Murmansk, owns the Northern Fleet Co., which operates the SC Eridan, JSC Strelets, and JSC Taurus fishing companies. The companies collectively caught 150,000 MT of cod, mackerel, pilchard, herring, haddock, poutassou, and flatfish in the Barents and Norwegian
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The land border crossing between Russia and China in the Primorsk region, in the Russian Far East, has been overwhelmed by traffic, leading to losses for crab companies in the region ...
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Russia's government is exploring ways to create a marketing body to promote the country’s seafood in the wake of a massive drop in the country’s exports to China.
China long served as the primary destination for seafood exports. In 2020, Russia sold more than one million metric tons (MT) of seafood – primarily pollock – to China. That total represented 61 percent of Russia’s total seafood exports by
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Russia's Federal Agency for Fisheries has announced it will facilitate the production of reefers – or refrigerated containers – to help the nation’s seafood industry meet its logistics needs.
Manufacturing of the containers will be managed through the state-owned enterprise Natsrybresurs (The National Fishery Resource), a subordinate entity of the fishery agency. Production will be performed by Chelyabinsk-based company
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A boom in Russia's oyster production boosted the country's trade independence, according to Russia Federal Agency for Fisheries Head Ilya Shestakov …
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Russia has wrapped up its 2021 salmon season with a catch of more than 520,000 metric tons (MT), far above the pre-season forecast of 460,000 MT and second only to 2018, when a whopping 676,000 MT was harvested …
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Russian authorities are looking for new ways to bring supplies of pollock from the country’s Far East – where most of the species is caught – to the country’s more populated west.
As part of that effort, the government announced it will subsidize shipments …
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Two major Russian seafood companies, Antey and the North-Western Fishery Consortium, have formed an investment partnership …
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