24 Aug 2022 11:49

Russian fisheries agency not expecting complications with supplying saury to domestic market as foreign vessels will provide it

MOSCOW. Aug 24 (Interfax) - Russian Federal Fisheries Agency (Rosrybolovstvo) expects supplies of saury from foreign vessels and assures that there will be no complications with supplying the domestic market with this type of fish, Rosrybolovstvo said in a statement.

"In the fishing area for pelagic objects (sardine, mackerel, saury), The Vsevolod Sibirtsev floating base is typically located in the fishing area for the surface water sardine, mackerel and saury varieties, and it which accepts catches (raw materials) for processing from Russian fishing vessels that operate at sea and are not equipped with processing facilities. Additionally, foreign ships that fish for saury on the high seas outside Russian waters also deliver raw materials, and they have permission to cross the border," the ministry said in the statement.

"Fish are changing migration routes," but saury will be on the shelves, the document emphasizes.

Citing the Pacific branch of the Russian Research Institute for Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) (TINRO), which is a federal state budgetary scientific institution, Rosrybolovstvo the previous day said that Russian vessels had not started fishing for saury, and that it was unlikely that the fish would enter the Russian economic zone this year.