In 2022, 4.88 million tons of fish and seafood were caught in Russia
Seafood
Russia
Published Jan 12, 2023
Tridge summary
In early January, the Federal Agency for Fishery summed up the preliminary results of 2022. In total, 4.8 million tons of fish were caught in Russia, it follows from the data of the department, most of them in the Far East region. The agency will provide more accurate data at the end of the first quarter of 2023, when it will clarify the data on the catch of freshwater fish.
Original content
In the Far Eastern Fisheries Basin, most of the total catch of 2022 was caught - 3.49 million tons, two-thirds of this volume was pollock, and pollock was caught by 182 thousand tons more than in 20221. In addition, almost half a million tons of herring were caught in this region, which is 56.5 thousand tons more than in 2021. In other regions, fishermen caught significantly less fish, but of other species - for example, 42.8 thousand tons of sprat in the Western Fisheries Basin. 577 thousand tons of catch fell on the World Ocean, its open, special economic or foreign-owned zones. Export of fish in 2022 increased by more than a quarter, the Ministry of Agriculture notes. For the first 7 months alone, 1.1 million tons of fish ...
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