IN BRIEF - The video of 'Far Eastern Pollock' is gaining popularity on the internet for Fishermen's Day
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Friday, July 19, 2024
Last Sunday, July 14, Russia celebrated one of the most popular holidays and the main professional holiday for all representatives of the Russian fishing industry – Fisherman's Day. In honor of this important event, the Pollock Catchers Association, as part of the Far Eastern Pollock program, released a video about the extraction of the country's main commercial resource. About 1 million Russians watched it in one day.
The footage for the spectacular video on the pollock fishery was filmed in the Bering Sea, the second most important fishing area, where more than 600 thousand tons are caught. The video on the platforms of the Far Eastern Pollock brand - the website and social networks - was released at night in the Far East on Fisherman's Day, which has been celebrated on the second Sunday of July for fifty-nine years. Thus, the Pollock Catchers Association not only congratulated representatives of the fishing industry on their professional holiday but also showed Russians that pollock appears on their tables thanks to the hard work of 30,000 fishermen in the Far East.
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New scheme targets energy, water use and grid integration
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The aquaculture and fisheries sector of Los Lagos has gained new commercial opportunities in North Asia. Companies such as Aqua Chile, Maroa Foods, and Sudmaris joined a delegation organized by 
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Norway set a new record for salmon exports last week, shipping 43,800 tonnes (round weight) abroad and beating the previous record set in mid-August by 245 tonnes.
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To take a few recent examples; in August Mowi Norway took delivery of a new hybrid workboat from Damen Folla, a single-hull aluminium vessel with a hybrid diesel-electric propulsion system; in the same month, shipbuilder Grovfjord Mek Verksted 2.0 of Norway and the Shetland-based company Ocean Farm Services signed a contract for the construction of a new service catamaran, which will be part of Ocean Farm Services’ operations in the Scottish aquaculture industry with a particular focus on cleaning nets; and the big aquaculture vessel operator, Frøy, has ordered two new wellboats from China.
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Portable DNA sequencing will provide faster stock identification while strengthening Indigenous control over fisheries data.
