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On October 15th, the Russian Federal Energy Commission approved new rates for cargoes handling and related services at the Murmansk fishing port.

On October 17th, the Murmansk regional administration planned to hold another meeting of the Fishery Council. However, in view of new regulations that came recently from the State Fishery Committee, it was decided to postpone the meeting.

The Russian government has passed a list of territories, establishments and organizations, for entrance to which foreign citizens must obtain a special permit.

“Cooperation with Norway and Finland on frontier guard policies is essential.”
Vladimir Chernov, deputy commander of the Arctic regional department of Russian Federal Frontier Guard, says that cooperation with Norwegian and Finnish counterparts acquires a special significance today. He expands on the subject in the following interview given to a correspondent of Association of Independent Journalists of the North.

Passing a new document regulating allocation of fishing quotas among Murmansk region’s enterprises is a subject for bitter criticism voiced by different representatives of the local fishery sector. “The Temporary Order of Quotas Distribution” contains too many controversial statements that do not correlate with the aim of this document defined by the regional government as “improving the legal basis for distribution of quotas for aqua biological resources as well as a better regulation of their use.”

Industrial fishing for crab in the Barents Sea may start as soon as next year. It was found possible at recent session of the Permanent Russian-Norwegian Committee on Fisheries Monitoring and Management held in Murmansk.

Members of the Academic Board of PINRO institute in Murmansk have discussed opportunities of resuming research surveys for total saithe stock evaluation.

According to a decree of the governor of the Murmansk region, as of September 25, 2002, deputy governor Vyacheslav Silin is no longer in charge of the fishery sector of the Murmansk region.

Quotas for fishing both in and beyond the Russian EEZ will be allocated under a newly adopted scheme; such news came from the State Fisheries Committee of the Russian Federation.

On October 11th, the ambassador of Iceland in Russia Benedikt Jonsson visited Murmansk region and had a meeting with the deputy governor Alexander Selin.