Fish catch in Russia will decrease and amount to less than 5 million tons in 2025

Fish catch in Russia in 2025 will decrease slightly and will amount to about five million tons. This was influenced, among other things, by the zero quota for capelin fishing, the decline in cod and salmon stocks, Vasily Sokolov, Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for Fisheries, told reporters. Russian fishermen caught over 5.3 million tons of fish products in 2023, which was the best indicator in the last 30 years. As of November 12, 2024, the production of aquatic bioresources was stable at over 4.3 million tons. "Of course, the catch will be lower than it was, say, in 2023. We expect that it will be somewhere around five million [tons]," Sokolov said. According to the Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for Fisheries, the ...