In Russia, the Kaliningrad region could become a hub for the fishing industry under sanctions

This was reported by the press service of the regional government with reference to the head of the region Anton Alikhanov. “Under the conditions of sanctions, the Kaliningrad region, with Russia’s only ice-free port on the Baltic, ship repair and processing facilities, can become a hub, a base for Russian fishermen,” Alikhanov’s words are quoted in the message at the VI International Fishery Forum and Exhibition of the Fishing Industry, Seafood and Technologies, which takes place in St. Petersburg. He also noted that the region has been stocking the Kaliningrad Bay with juvenile eels for the second year. More than a million individuals were released in September, with another one and a half million planned for next year. “We have developed a 12-year program. We hope that from 2025 we will be able to stock not only our bays, but also, for example, the Gulf of Finland, so that there will be more and more eels in our inland waters,” Alikhanov said. According to him, the region is ...