Russian Fish e-Monthly №1 (1) 25 декабря 2020

EDITOR’S NOTE

• Russian Fish e-Monthly to highlight sector’s opportunities for international business

SECTOR HIGHLIGHTS (IMPORTANT NEWS)

• Russia and China negotiate COVID-linked seafood trade issues
• Putin signs law to simplify seafood export VAT refund
• Government digital platform to help boost Russian exports of processed seafood
• Russia takes the trouble to ratify the Agreement On Port State Measures
• Russian national catch progress to November 2020
• YTD October 2020 Seafood export shows controvercial trends for value and volume
• McDonald's to source local seafood for new restaurants in the Russian Far East
• Russian government amended rules for foreign investors deals in strategic industries
• Fish ports and coldstores to gain from 3 million tonne turnover target
• Russia to continue fishing off Morocco for another four years
• Russian government approves foreign labour recruitment quotas for 2021

SEAFOOD SUPPLY FROM RUSSIAN FAR EAST

• Sales from Russian Far East hit by uncertainties with export to China
• China bottleneck overshadows prospects for pollock A-season in the Sea of Okhotsk
• Hearing of dispute between big pollock players postponed
• 2021 forecast for Russian “A” and “B” pollock seasons
• Kamchatka and Chukotka fishermen have improved year-on-year catch results
• Lack of destination diversity exposing RFE exports to fluctuations in external demand
• Russian Far East companies displaying different priсe, value and volume efficiency in seafood exports

PACIFIC MARKETS

• Pollock roe auctions in Busan took off with diving prices
• Prices of South Korean imports of live snow crab on a rise

SEAFOOD SUPPLY FROM MURMANSK-LED NORTH FISHERIES

• Further constraints hitting Russian and global seafood exports to China
• Landings surge in Murmansk
• Barents Sea catch and quota progress to November 2020
• Norwegian Sea catch and quota progress to November 2020
• Catch and quota progress in Northeast/Northwest Atlantic and Central East Atlantic to November 2020
• Baltic Sea catch and quota progress to November 2020
• Russian fleets winding up herring fishery in Faroese Zone and other areas
• Progress and outlook for shrimp fishery in Barents Sea in 2020-2021
• NAFO approved overall TACs and Russia’s fishing quotas for 2021

SEAFOOD IMPORTS AND DOMESTIC MARKET

• Russian fish and seafood imports for 9 months of 2020
• Russian seafood imports in January – October 2020
• Saint-Petersburg market behind usual end-of-year acceleration
• Moscow salmon and trout market still waiting for season’s rally

VET UPDATE

• Russian vet control summary in September -November 2020
• Russia and Egypt Seafood export negotiations
• Russia getting ready to export seafood to Indonesia

COMPANY UPDATE

• Onshore plants worth $26 million nearing completion
• Pilot phase of $40 million crab factory taking off in Murmansk
• $36 million Fish Market Layout plan finalized in Vladivostok
• Leading processor announcing plans for big changes in production and distribution

SHIPBUILDING, ONSHORE PLANTS AND REFURBISHMENT

• Turkish yard delivers first supertrawler to Russia’s major pollock harvester
• Seventh factory trawler laid for NOREBO Group at Northern shipyard
• Newbuilds for non-TAC and low margin species to get 30% refund
• YANTAR Yard moves newbuilding trawler to open slipway
• Good business in Russia for Baader despite COVID-19
• Newbuilding wet fish trawler to help boost fillet production
• Massive newbuilding program for Magadan-based company in Turkey and Russia
• Second factory trawler laid for Atlantrybflot
• Second crabber laid for Russia’s biggest crab quota holder
• Third seiner-trawler delivered to customer in the Russian Far East

AQUACULTURE

• Marine culture surging in the Russian Far East to chase huge potential
• Big rise for Russia’s production of Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout
• Aquaculture sites distribution by electronic auction set for expansion
• Russian fish farmers getting extra protection through subsidized insurance

APPENDIX 1: Fairs and Exhibitions

• Peterfood held in unusual format
• Russian seafood fairs 2021