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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The Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) announced a dour initial salmon harvest prediction for 2022 ...
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Just a month and a half after Russian seafood firms regained full access to the Chinese market, they may face new restrictions ...
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Russian seafood exports rose in value by 26 percent in 2021 to USD 5.85 billion (EUR 5.02 billion), but Russia will face a challenge approaching that total in 2022 ...
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Workers at small- and medium-sized Russian fishing companies have launched a campaign to halt the second investment-quota program that Russia’s Federal Agency for Fisheries wants to begin in 2023…
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The regional government of Kamchatka, Russia has launched an anti-poaching campaign and a crackdown on counterfeit and smuggled salmon roe.
In mid-January, the Investigative Committee of Russia arrested a transport policewoman over allegations she helped illegal salmon-roe traders make it through control zones at Elizovo Airport in Kamchatka Krai. After allegedly taking bribes from two men, the policewoman ensured their luggage
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Russia’s Ministry for Agriculture has published a new document outlining steps to mitigate the risks posed to the country’s agricultural and seafood industries by climate change.
Russian companies and scientists are already seeing the consequences of warming waters and ocean acidification, according to Russian Minister of Agriculture Dmitry Partushev. In a speech at a session of the International Agriculture Forum in late 2021,
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Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has signed a government decree allocating RUB 23 billion (USD 301.8 million, EUR 263.6 million) to construct a large-capacity scientific fishery ship to be built through 2026.
Mishustin said at a meeting with vice prime ministers and ministers the ship will be designed to conduct a wide range of research to help Russia increase its seafood resource base and provide the nation’s fisheries with
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The Krasnodar region of Russia is seeing a shellfish boom as production of mussels and oysters increased 70 percent in the first 10 months of 2021 compared to 2020 …
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Russian pollock exporters have regained access to the Chinese market, which had been for the most part closed since late 2020 due to COVID-19 restrictions.
The Russian Federal Agency for Fisheries said in a press release that the Chinese ports of Dalian and Qingdao have lifted restrictions previously imposed on bulk seafood imported from Russia. In mid-January, the first Russian tramper to arrive in China since the lifting of the ban
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The Azov and Black Sea branch of the Federal Russian Research Institute Of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) is launching an initiative to harvest jellyfish in the Russian south in order to alleviate the threat to local anchovy and increase the country’s exports.
VNIRO scientists have been working on a method of catching and cooking jellyfish for a few years, according to a press release. The organization’s efforts have
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