Russia: Rosrybolovstvo will hold a meeting in Kaliningrad on the construction of vessels for the extraction of Antarctic krill

It is planned to discuss the prospects for fishing and measures of state support for potential customers of krill fish. On November 27, Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for Fishery Petr Savchuk will hold a meeting at the Atlantic branch of VNIRO on the construction of vessels for fishing krill at Russian shipyards and possible measures of state support. The department emphasizes that the catch and development of krill is one of the strategic directions for the development of the fishery complex in Russia. At a meeting with the President on October 20, the head of the Federal Agency for Fishery, Ilya Shestakov, said that there are companies interested in building three modern vessels at domestic shipyards for work in the Antarctic. In the future, four to five years in Antarctic waters, it is possible to catch about 300 thousand tons of krill, the head of the federal agency estimated the scale of the possible fishery. The department expects that fishermen will respond to proposals ...