Russia: The beginning of the fishing season in the Northern Kuriles pleases fishermen

The beginning of another fishing season in the Northern Kuriles is encouraging for the island fishermen. According to the latest data from the Federal Agency for Fishery, 93.4 tons of salmon were caught here. This is 79 times more than for the same period of the "control", the same odd 2021. Local fishermen raised pink salmon, chum salmon, sockeye salmon and coho salmon from seines. According to recent data, the Sakhalin region is still in second place this season. It is followed by the Primorsky and Khabarovsk Territories, the Magadan Region and the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. It is expected that, in general, the island fishermen will firmly enter the top three in terms of salmon catches over the course of the season. Exceeds in the extraction of red fish, as in previous years, the Kamchatka Territory, where the fishing season started on June 1. Neighbors have already taken more than 3.7 thousand tons of salmon from the total catch in the Far East. The processing facilities ...