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Russian Fishermen Caught About 500 Thousand Tons of Sardine Iwashi

RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Tuesday, November 12, 2024, 07:00 (GMT + 9)

By November 11, Far Eastern enterprises had harvested 493.5 thousand tons of sardine-iwashi. The efficiency of its fishing remains at the level of the indicators of the previous weeks.

Currently, 27 vessels are involved in sardine and mackerel fishing, a Fishnews correspondent reports, citing a traditional review by the Pacific branch of VNIRO. According to his data, 22 units of the fleet were working last week, of which 12 to 15 medium- and large-tonnage vessels under the Russian flag were fishing daily, with an average of 13 vessels.

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From November 3 to 10, 79 vessel-days of fishing were carried out. Fishing was carried out in the waters of the South Kuril Strait and south of Shikotan Island on the Oyashio fronts with a temperature difference of 11-13°C.

The maximum daily catch of sardine by individual vessels reached 736 tons, on average 426 tons were caught per SS, 33.6 thousand tons were caught per week. Mackerel was caught 155 tons per week, and since the beginning of the year - 3.2 thousand tons.

According to information available to TINRO, the saury catch by all fishing vessels as of October 24 amounted to 138.8 thousand tons (as of the reporting date of 2023 - 90.7 thousand tons).

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Vessels from China, Taiwan, Vanuatu and the Republic of Korea have used up their saury quotas in open waters and must stop fishing, the branch notes. The Japanese fleet completed saury fishing in Russia's exclusive economic zone on October 31, having caught 4,346 tons.

Russian saury fishing is carried out by two vessels, with 800 tons caught so far.

Fishing for sardines, mackerel and other pelagic species in open waters is carried out by foreign vessels totaling about 100 units, mainly under the flag of the PRC.

Source: Federal Agency for Fisheries

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