Russia: Kaliningrad companies increased fish catches outside Russian waters by 4% in 2023

Moscow. January 30. INTERFAX.RU - Fishing companies in the Kaliningrad region in 2023 increased their catch in the exclusive economic zones of foreign states, conventional areas and the open part of the World Ocean by 4% compared to the previous year - to 165,213 thousand tons, the regional Fisheries Agency reported. It is noted that the main fishing objects were mackerel, blue whiting, Atlantic herring, beaked perch, capelin, cod and haddock. The mackerel catch increased by 11% to 59.480 thousand tons, whiting by 9% to 50.372 thousand tons, capelin - by 42% to 5.575 thousand tons, cod - by 46% to 5.256 thousand tons, haddock - by 53% to 1.607 thousand tons. In the NEAFC zone (regulatory area of the Northeast Atlantic Fisheries Commission), Kaliningrad fishermen have almost completely mastered the quotas for catching redfish (by 96%) and Atlantic herring (by 99%). The total catch in the Barents Sea increased 6 times - to 9.936 thousand tons, in the open part of the Norwegian Sea ...