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Fishing companies forming the basis of their city economies should be given quotas on preferential terms. Such a statement was made by Evgeny Nazdratenko, Chairman of Russia’s State Fisheries Committee, at the press conference summarizing the Far East fishermen meeting held on August 20th, 2002.

As of August 22, 2002 new customs regulations are applied for goods exported from Russia to member states of the Customs Union which also includes Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan.

Albert Levanov, one of the major shareholders of Sevrybkholodflot, a Murmansk-based fishing company, arrested in Karelia and under investigation.

For the first time this year, the Interdepartmental Commission of Auction Sales of Quotas for Marine Biological Resources has permitted foreign buyers to participate, - according to Russia’s Ministry of Economic Development.

From now on we have quotas for Herring and Blue Whiting available at the paid section of our website.

Chairman of Federation Council Sergey Mironov declared against fish auctions that arranges now for second year in order to distribute quotas for aqua biological recourses. This problem was discussed among others on his meeting with president Vladimir Putin.

We have already informed our readers about the resolution of the State Custom Committee of Russian Federation regulating the conditions of custom declaring of sea vessels which have been repaired outside the Russian borders.

Sea exercises “Barents - 2002” in Barents Sea are scheduled to 26-29th of August.

The State Custom Committee of Russian Federation has finally made a resolution that regulates the custom declaration of Russian trade vessels returning from technical service outside the custom jurisdiction, including ship repair. Russian trading fleet has waited for this document for a very long time.

On July 27th of this year, the Government of Russian Federation approved “Resolution regarding certification of ship-personnel of fishing fleet of Russian Federation”.