New fees for fish and seafood have been set in Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law establishing new rates for catching fish and seafood (excluding marine mammals) in inland waters. The corresponding document was published on Monday. Now, a single approach will be applied in determining rates: for each object (fish, algae, other aquatic animals and plants), the rate will be calculated at the level of 4.8% of the average price set by manufacturers when selling such products. For non-valuable and mostly caught for personal consumption fish species (bream, pike, burbot, roach, ruff, smelt, sabrefish, rudd, silver bream, tench, perch, crucian carp), the previous rates of 20 rubles were retained. per ton. For algae - mostly 50 rubles. per ton, for capelin, some types of herring, sprat, mussels and some other mollusks - 150 rubles per ton. The pollock catch rate has been increased to 4.3 thousand rubles. (hereinafter - per ton), cod - from 2.5 to 7.9 thousand rubles. depending on the region. The fee for flounder is ...